LKS Next Surpasses €85 Million in Revenue in 2025 After Growing 15% and Projects 19% Growth in 2026

Technology consulting group LKS Next held its General Assembly last Friday at Bilbao’s Euskalduna Conference Centre, where Chief Executive Officer Elena Zárraga presented the company’s 2025 results and provided an update on business performance during the first months of 2026.

Consolidated revenue reached nearly €85 million in 2025, representing a 15% increase compared with the previous year. This positions LKS Next among the leading consulting groups in northern Spain and within the country’s top 100 technology companies. The result also marks the seventh consecutive year of double-digit growth, with the group having tripled its revenue since 2021.

These figures place the company firmly on track to achieve the objectives outlined in its 2025–2028 Strategic Plan, which targets more than €100 million in revenue by the end of the period, excluding any acquisitions that may also be completed as part of the plan.

Two additional milestones were achieved during the year: workforce growth and improved profitability. Through its integrated offering combining consulting, technology, legal advisory and cybersecurity services, LKS Next increased its workforce to 854 professionals in 2025 after creating 47 new jobs during the year, representing a 6% increase compared with 2024.

The group also continues to generate high-quality employment, with 97% of employees holding permanent contracts. In terms of profitability, LKS Next reported consolidated profit before tax of €5.8 million. In line with its cooperative model, the group also allocated €2 million to collective variable remuneration schemes distributed among both cooperative members and non-member employees.

EBITDA reached €7.9 million, representing a 23% increase compared with 2024.

Strong Start to 2026

The first months of 2026 have reinforced this positive trajectory. Between January and April, revenue increased by 19% year-on-year, while profit rose by 27.5% compared with the same period in 2025, significantly outperforming the assumptions set out in the annual business plan.

Elena Zárraga highlighted that the group is entering 2026 with “the same momentum with which it closed 2025.”

Growth continues to be driven by increasing demand for digitalization and disruptive technologies, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cybersecurity, process automation and advanced software engineering, areas in which LKS Next has significantly strengthened its market position over the past year.

Within this context, LKS Next Legal has already established itself among the 30 largest law firms in Spain by revenue.

Corporate Simplification to Strengthen the LKS Next Brand

During the General Assembly, the group also announced the integration of subsidiaries Prospektiker and Zamundi into the parent company through a merger by absorption, with no workforce reductions.

Prospektiker, acquired in the late 1990s, specializes in strategic foresight studies for both public and private sector organizations. Zamundi, which joined the group in 2021, focuses on the development and implementation of Microsoft-based solutions, an area in which LKS Next has become a leading partner.

The transaction fulfills one of the commitments included in the Strategic Plan to simplify and streamline the group’s corporate structure, improving efficiency, competitiveness and profitability while further strengthening the LKS Next brand. Management has not ruled out carrying out similar integrations involving other subsidiaries in the coming years.

35 Years of Growth: From 47 Employees to More Than 850 Professionals

Founded in Mondragón in 1991 as a spin-off from the business division of Laboral Kutxa, LKS Next began with a team of 47 professionals and the objective of providing management consulting services to companies and institutions across the region.

Thirty-five years later, the group employs more than 850 professionals across the Basque Country, Madrid, Cantabria and France. Its presence in Madrid has become particularly significant, with three offices and a workforce of 150 professionals, reflecting the group's consolidation as a nationwide player while maintaining strong roots within the Basque business community.

LKS Next is affiliated with the Mondragon Corporation and operates under a cooperative ownership structure at the head of the group, a model that influences both its growth strategy and the distribution of profits.

The Strategic Plan sets a target of creating more than 1,000 high-quality jobs before the end of the planning period.

“Those initial 47 people have become a professional services organization with a distinctive purpose and values, built around a cooperative model that today brings together a nationwide business group of more than 850 professionals and is moving steadily towards creating more than 1,000 high-quality jobs,” said Elena Zárraga.