Our training program continues, and we are again welcoming new trainees to the team.

Our GECO family is sticking together, even throughout the Corona crisis. Due to our digital business model, working from the home office is no problem.

We are increasing the effectiveness of our reporting and controlling by introducing the Power BI business analysis service.

In order to work in an even more focused way, we divide account management into the areas of Sales and Permanent account management (SAM and PAM).

GECO turns 20: We celebrate this occasion with a big party.

GECO has long since developed from a start-up into an established company in the IT staffing provider sector. Company founder Günter Hilger therefore feels that the time has come for him to withdraw from managing the company. He sells  GECO to Yoh Services LLC - an international group under whose umbrella we can continue to remain true to ourselves. Not only does our business model remains the same, so do our corporate philosophy and our team.

The GECO family continues to grow. Our headquarters in Hamburg  are expanded by means of a conversion.

After passing through several team lead positions, Markus Reefschläger joins the management team.

We are breaking new ground in training: In collaboration with the FOM University in Hamburg, we award our first places for the dual study programme in Business Administration.

Our successful quality management is now also documented: We become certified according to ISO 9001:2008.

We celebrate GECO’s tenth anniversary and organize workshops with all employees on Mallorca.

Our growth requires a relocation in Hamburg. The first tenant in the building, GECO moves into the  15th floor of the Silo at Schellerdamm 16.

We open a second location in Munich. The north-south split brings us closer to our nationwide customer base and pool of skilled personnel.

As a result of the burst dot-com bubble, GECO also suffers setbacks. Thanks to our already established structures, we are weathering the crisis - and learning from it: From now on, we will be increasing our sales efforts.

The first trainees join our team.

Our future managing director Markus Reefschläger starts his career at GECO career as a recruitment assistant.

The Federal Employment Agency issues our permit to provide temporary IT staff -  the permit has been perpetual since 2004.

The name GECO has spread throughout the corporate world, our phones hardly stop ringing. Skill matching is still performed via Excel questionnaires in hard copy. The number of employees reaches double digits - and the premises become too small. We rent an additional floor in our office building.

Our team now consists of four people. We organise our first kick-off meeting in Lisbon.

Finally: the first real office address at Winsener Straße 64 in Hamburg.

Günter establishes the IT consulting and services company GECO (Gesellschaft für EDV-Consulting und Dienstleistung mbH).

Many companies are afraid of a potential computer problem at the turn of the millennium - the Y2K/Millennium bug. Our managing partner to-be, Günter Hilger, therefore developed the idea of providing IT specialists.

The company's office is located in my living room - equipped with a folding desk, PC, mobile phone, fax machine and my personal analogue telephone connection. Meaning: Fax and internet do work, but unfortunately not at the same time.