adesso se on friday said it expected sales and earnings growth this year following a strong rise in sales in 2022 when profit fell due to a oneoff effect the german information technology company said its aftertax profit was 288 million euros 314 million last year compared with eur476 million in 2021 earnings were affected by the sale of adessos espirit operations in 2021 which brought in extraordinary income in addition the 2022 tax rate rose in part because espirits income was largely taxfree adesso said sales rose 33 in 2022 to eur90025 million fueled by demand for the companys services and software adessos 2022 margin was 103 based on earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortizationdown from 124 the company blamed rapid growth and investments that resulted in capacity delays as well as remote working due to higher rates of sick employees after pandemic restrictions lifted the company forecast that rising demand for digitalization would lift results this year we plan to generate sales volumes of over eur1 billion for the adesso group and ebitda of eur100 million to eur110 million which corresponds to doubledigit rates of growth in both sales and earnings adesso said adesso proposed a dividend hike to eur065 from eur060 in 2021