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Cologne. Cosmopolitan and with a zest for life –
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Highly-qualified skilled workers … … supplements the hard locational factors 
… guarantee sustainable business success.  and makes Cologne a popular home – permanent or 
Cologne offers highly-qualifi ed and motivated  temporary. More than 30 percent of the population has a 
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specialists. And that means not only those with a degree  migration background and enriches the town with their 

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training in theory and practice also produces outstand- Cologne is used to dealing with other cultures and the  Department for Press and Public Relations
ing skilled workers for industry, trade and services. In- people of Cologne love to share the “kölsche” way of life 
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linguistic skills right from  this public festival attracts  Printing
childhood and the offer of pri- people from near and far  Orthen Druck, Cologne
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no areas uncovered. The  cosmopolitan attitudes of  Arena Management GmbH; Bayer AG; Ford-Werke GmbH; 
I. Decker; Köln Bonn Airport; Koelnmesse GmbH; Stadt Köln, 
Employment Agency Cologne  a European metropolis are 
Amt für Wirtschaftsförderung; koelntourismus.de; Ventur; 
additionally advises and sup- enriched in Cologne on the  Westdeutscher Rundfunk WDR
ports investors in their search 
for personnel. 
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11 Arguments …
… speak for the cathedral city. Cologne is a city with
tradition and character. Much distinguishes the indus-
trial location on the Rhine. We have collected 11 argu-
ments because 11 is a magical number in Cologne. For
example, according to legend, St. Ursula, together with
11,000 virgins, was slain by the Huns in Cologne. That
is symbolically represented by the 11 flames on the
municipal coat of arms. On 11th November (11.11) each
year the fifth season – Carnival – opens in Cologne.
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17 million people …
… within a radius of 100 kilometres around
Cologne mean proximity to the market and
customer potential. With a population of one million,
Cologne is the fourth-largest city and the third-largest
industrial region in Germany and lies at the heart of a
promising market on a European scale. Within a radius
of 250 kilometres, business-
men already reach 45 million
potential customers. Cologne
welcomes business people
from Germany and abroad with
its cosmopolitan people and
with public authorities who
speak their language and offer
optimal service. The cathedral
city recommends itself as a hub
for Europe’s markets.
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Top location and perfect logistics …
… are trademarks of Cologne. Three international
airports can be reached in less than an hour from
Cologne’s city centre – Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf and
Frankfurt. Cologne Bonn Airport is a central location of
the low-cost airlines in Germany. Germanwings alone
serves 40 destinations from Cologne all over Europe.
With their hubs, UPS and FedEx guarantee the efficient
handling of airfreight. Cologne is also a European rail
junction. International high-speed rail services link Am-
sterdam, Brussels,
London and Paris
with Cologne in a
very short time.
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Industries with a future …
… are in the top class in Cologne. Deutz AG has
been supplying engines all over the world for
more than 140 years from its headquarters in the ca-
thedral city. Ford, Citroën, DAF, Mazda, Nissan, Renault,
Toyota and Volvo make Cologne and the region the cen-
tre for international automobile manufacturers. Electrical
engineering, mechanical engineering and the energy
industry round off the industrial spectrum. Little-known
market leaders from small and me-
dium-sized business are also very
important in Cologne. Names like
Alfred H. Schütte, Felix Böttcher,
Igus, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum,
Rimowa, Schwarze-Robitec and
Sonderhoff are often No.1 in their
market segments in Europe.
Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology ...
… benefit from Cologne’s outstanding local condi-
tions: links to the international pipeline system,
short approval times and highly-qualified personnel.
Global companies like Bayer, Basell, Evonik, ExxonMo-
bil Chemical, Ineos Cologne and Lanxess produce in
Cologne and the region. The proximity to science and
research as well as the industry-specific networks BioCo-
logne, BioPartners, BioRiver or ChemCologne, promote
development of the location and company formations.
Taconic­Artemis, Lonza
Cologne or Miltenyi Biotec
are examples in the up-and-
coming field of biotechnol-
ogy.
Radio and TV capital of Germany ….
… and top address for the IT and telecommunica-
tions industry is undisputedly Cologne. West-
deutsche Rundfunk, the largest public service radio
and television broadcasting corporation in continental
Europe, is based here. RTL, the largest and most success-
ful European commercial TV channel, broadcasts from
Cologne, as do other leading TV and radio stations. The
Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the International
Film School Cologne provide
optimal support for young
talent. Advanced technology
is supplied by Adobe, Arxes,
Electronic Arts, Microsoft,
MindTree, Pironet NDH, SQS,
QSC, Unitymedia and Wipro,
for example.
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World-class trade fair and commercial centre …
… favoured by its customer potential and optimal
transport links: the cathedral city. The Koeln­
messe presents around two million buyers from all over
the world with about 90 percent of the exportable world
production of goods. Anuga and photokina, the Interna-
tional Hardware Fair Practical World, Asia-Pacific Sourc-
ing, the International Furniture Fair “imm cologne”, Art
Cologne or Europe’s leading fair of the games business,
Gamescom, are among the international events. And
with Kaufhof AG and the
Rewe Group, two of the
leading international
retail groups are based in
Cologne.
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Cologne connects ...
… people, companies, networks. Doing business
is easy in Cologne. The access to efficient and
business-friendly public administration is just as impor-
tant a factor as the possibility of establishing (business)
contacts quickly and efficiently. The more than 3,000 in-
ternational companies here also appreciate this. And the
fact that Cologne is a leader in Germany in terms of its
business-friendliness,
has been repeatedly
confirmed to the Of-
fice of Economic Devel-
opment – for example
in recent years by Ernst
& Young.