Horizon Group — Annual Report · 2025 05 / 15
Innovation & Technology
The largest programme in our history
Horizon Group invested CHF 360 million in research and development in 2025 — 15% of revenue, and more than the group spends on any other single activity. The programme is split between the Geneva R&D campus and the Zurich technology centre, with manufacturing engineering embedded in the Lausanne plant so that nothing is designed that cannot be built.
Its most visible result shipped in September: the modular platform, a single architecture whose modules are exchanged and upgraded instead of replacing entire lines. Fifty enterprise customers signed within the first four months, and the order book stood at 40 weeks at year end.
Innovation in numbers
R&D investment 2021–2025
Research and development expenditure, in CHF millions — up 40% over five years while revenue grew 50%.
Inside the R&D programme
Inside the modular platform
“We did not build one product; we built the factory for the next ten. A 40-week order book says customers understood that faster than we dared to hope.”