Europe 500 Ranking
The Europe's 500 focuses on employment creation. Companies which have successfully met the criteria and verification process are ranked according to their growth performance via the David Birch Employee Growth Index.

This index focuses on employment creation combining both relative and absolute growth and is used to rank and quantify the companies' performance.

The Europe's 500 growth performance Birch Index represents:

The absolute difference in employment between the upper (End 2006)

and

the lower (End 2003) reference year

multiplied by

Employment in the upper reference year

divided by

employment in the lower reference year.

Example: if a company grew its employment from 200 employees in 2003 to 800 employees in 2006, the Birch index would be: = (800-200) x (800/200) = 600 x 4 = 2400