The Berlin Industrial and Commercial Landscape

The Berlin Industrial and Commercial Landscape
Berlin is set to become the place for industrial companies specialising in intelligent products. The industrial sector in the capital region has a future oriented outline:
Alongside traditional industries like
  • Electrical engineering
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Energy/fuels
  • Chemistry/synthetics
  • Food industry
  • Wood/paper
high-tech industries such as
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical technology
  • Environmental technology
  • Transport systems technology
  • Information and communications technology
  • Laser technology, nano-technology, optics
are rapidly gaining in importance.

With its melange of advanced technologies and fully modernised traditional-type industries, the Berlin industry and commercial landscape offers clear opportunities to newcomers and suppliers who want to make contact with the growth industries of the future.
An attractive environment for doing business makes investing in Berlin an easy choice.
  • Excellent infrastructure
  • Attractive business environment
  • Keenly priced real estate in the whole area
  • Availability of skilled labour and well-educated academics
  • Very moderate expense structures
  • Flexible working hours and high productivity
  • Manifold science and research landscape
  • Efficient business networks and competence centres
  • One of the lowest communal company taxation in Germany
  • High quality of life
  • Best business supporting conditions within the EU
  • Close proximity to Central and Eastern Europe's expanding markets 


Large-scale industrial enterprises and their workforce
More than 2,000 industrial firms (with 20 or more employees) reside in the capital region. The manufacturing sector employs around 250,000 people (without building industry).

160,000 employees perform industry-related services.

(Sources: Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office, 2006/2007, IHK Berlin, 2007)


The sector’s leading employers:

Companies
Employees
Siemens AG
12,620
Daimler AG
  6,400
Vattenfall Europe
  5,140
BMW Group
  2,460
Osram GmbH
  2,080
Bombardier Transportation
  1,940
Philip Morris GmbH
  1,240
Coca-Cola Deutschland
  1,100
Storck Gruppe
  1,100
ThyssenKrupp AG
  1,070
OTIS-Gruppe Deutschland
  1,060
Gillette Deutschland GmbH & Co. oHG
  1,060
Bosch und Siemens Haushaltsgeräte GmbH
     850
Schindler Deutschland GmbH
     830

(Sources: Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 2009)
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