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Stiltz delight at Top 10 ranking

A Kingswinford company has been ranked for the second consecutive year as the Midlands fastest growing small or medium-sized firm for exports.

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Mike Lord

Home lifts manufacturer Stiltz Lifts was tenth nationally in the fourth annual Sunday Times Lloyds SME Export Track 100.

Stiltz Lifts chairman Mike Lord said: “We are absolutely delighted to be ranked in the top 10 of the SME Export Track 100 for a second year and to be top of the league table in the Midlands again is also very pleasing.

“We’ve worked very hard to reinvent the domestic lift market with our unique range of Stiltz home lifts and our total sales highlight the growing global need for our products which are helping improve people’s lives every day.

“At Stiltz, our mission statement is we aim to ‘democratise’ home lifts which means make them accessible to all. Over time, we want homeowners to be able to put Stiltz lifts in their homes as naturally as they would purchase a freezer or washing machine.”

Stiltz Lifts, based on the Pensnett Estate, has installed its capsule-shaped home lifts, which require no hydraulics or load bearing walls and plug straight into a domestic socket that travel on self-supporting ‘stilts’, in more than 20 countries.

Strong international sales helped it increase exports by 161 per cent per year to £6.2million in 2017. The home lift company, who employ around 140 staff, recorded total sales of £12.5m in 2017. Stiltz Lifts was ranked as seventh overall in 2016.

The research was carried out by Fast Track who has published league tables of top-performing private companies with The Sunday Times for the last 20 years.

Stiltz Lifts has experienced rapid growth since it was founded in 2010 and has approved distributors in the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and India. The company introduced a luxury domestic lift brand, Lifton, in 2016 and launched two new ground-breaking products to the Stiltz range, the Stiltz Duo+ Home Lift and Stiltz Trio+ Home Lift last summer.