Germany’s Late Bloomer
The east of Germany is catching up, attracting a series of high-profile, big-ticket international business expansions.
The region is finally delivering on a 30-year-old promise.
"Sustainable Mobility"
Top Investments 2022 in Thuringia
In 2022, Thuringia again proved its attractiveness as a business, investment and tourism location that attracts investors and also offers good conditions for expansion for those companies that are already operating in the Free State and want to expand here. LEG successfully accompanied numerous projects in its anniversary year: founded in 1992, the Erfurt-based economic development agency celebrated its 30th year.
Top Investments 2022 in Berlin
For the second year in a row, Berlin has been voted as the startup capital. Traditional company Mercedes Benz opened its Mercedes-Benz Digital Factory Campus in 2022, and with the AMBER brand, regional competencies and the transparency of the synergy potential between 3D printing actors and industry will be bundled.
“There is huge potential for exchange, joint development and convergence of interest”
Grisha Alroi-Arloser, CEO of the German-Israeli Chamber of Industry and Commerce, looks back on how Israel weathered the corona pandemic and considers what the future holds for the long-established international partnership between his nation and Germany.
New Hopes on Chips
Starting in the 1990s, chip production migrated to low-wage countries in Asia. Does Europe have any chance of enticing it back? It has! In this episode we’ll talk to the woman leading Intel’s big expansion in Germany. And get insights from the managing director of something called Silicon Saxony.
Top Investments 2022 in Bremen
Around 8 million euros were invested by foreign companies in the federal state of Bremen in 2022. The northern German city scored particularly well in the technology sector, but also in the transport and logistics sector.
Decarbonizing the Data Industry
Germany’s data center sector is expanding like never before and simultaneously undergoing a quiet revolution in energy efficiency. International companies are helping make the physical act of processing information better for the environment.
Top Investments 2022 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Subsea Europe Services, founded around three years ago in Halstenbek in Schleswig-Holstein, set up another location at the Ocean Technology Campus (OTC) in Rostock in summer 2022.
German Companies Named WEF Lighthouses
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has honored two German firms as part of its Global Lighthouse Network initiative.
Port of Hamburg Tests Long-Distance Logistics Control
More than 2000 kilometers separate the Estonian capital Tallinn from Munich. Nonetheless, HHLA – the company that runs the port of Hamburg (distance from Tallinn: over 1800 kilometers) – is currently testing a system that allows operators in the Bavarian capital to remotely control trucks in the box terminal in the Estonian city.
