The chamber’s district

Leipzig - a region in upheaval

Business Card Leipzig

“City of the 100 DM bank-note”

Nikolaikirche - Thomaskirche - Altes Rathaus - Gewandhaus 1884 - etc.

Leipzig - oldest trade fair location in Europe

• Since the Early Middle Ages,

Leipzig was crossed by the most

important trade routes of these

times

• Around 1165 - Otto the Rich,

Magrave of Meissen, granted the

town of Leipzig the market rights

• 1497 - Emperor Maximilian I.

granted the town of Leipzig the

imperial fair privileges

Historical Background

Location

Leipzig

Praha

Berlin

Frankfurt/M

720 km

265 km

359 km

160 km

Warsaw• Approx. 500,000 inhabitants

• Centre of a trading area with more

than 3 mill. customers

• A population of 10 million lives in

the range of 150 km

• Close to the New Markets in the up

coming economies of the Central

and Eastern European Countries

A modern infrastructure in the heart of Europe

• Rail junction for Central Europe

• Excellent motorway connections

• Modern Airport with more than

60 destinations in Europe, Asia,

Africa and America

• Efficient urban transport by light

rail

Infrastructure

BerlinHannoverHamburg

DresdenKrakow (PL)

Prague

KasselFrankfurt/M

NürnbergMunich

ChemnitzViena

Intercontinental Airport

Infrastructure

Leipzig Railway System

• Connected to the German High Speed Train System (ICE) with a top speed up to 280 km/h

• Leipzig Central Station- a combination of a modern train station with a service centre:- 140 shops, restaurants and snack bars

• Figures: 860 trains and 50,000 passengers each day

• Leipzig‘s central terminal interlinks all traffic systems in a most modern way

Infrastructure: Railway

Airport Leipzig-Halle

• One of Europe‘s most modern airports, to be completed in 2002

• Runway 3,5 km

• Operational 24 hours a day

• 8 mill. passengers per year

• Hub for cargo transport(more than 6,000 tons in 1998)

• Own railway station (50´ to Berlin Center by ICE-train)

• Direct connection to the motorway

Infrastructure: Airport

1,5 h Berlin City

2 h Hannover

1 h Dresden10´ Freight Village

3,5 h Munich

Train-Connections:Berlin Center 50´Dresden 60´Munich Center 3 h

Connected to the world

• Leipzig ranks among the world‘s Top Ten in advancedcommunication networks

• The most advanced glass-fibre network in Europe

• High Tech Telecommunication Equipment made in Leipzig: Manufacturing site of Siemens AG

• Lowest telephone rates due to high competition

Infrastructure: Telecommunication

Leipzig - a cosmopolitan town with tradition

• Spark plug to the peaceful revolution in 1989

• City with consulates and foreign representations

• Hospitality as a tradition

• Entertainment in the inter-national league

• Shopping in one of Germany´s most charming cities - traditional and forward-looking

Tradition & Culture

Leipzig - a cultural capitale

• St. Thomas Choir of world fame since 1212 - the Choir of Johan Sebastian Bach

• Famous for personalities like Wagner, Bach, MendelssohnGoethe, Schiller, Schumann, Leibniz, Lortzing

• Gewandhaus - great orchestra & top conductors like Kurt Mazur

• over 300 year tradition with own opera

• 5 theaters and 5 cabarets

Tradition & Culture

Poets, musicians and philosophers

Tradition & Culture

Bach

Schiller Goethe

SchumannMendelssohn

Leibniz

Lortzing

Wagner

2002: German gymnastic EventLadies Volleyball-Word-Championship

2006: Soccer World Championship

2012: Olympic Games in Leipzig (?)

Sports City Leipzig

Chambers district in figures

• 1.082 865 Inhabitants / 247 Persons /qkm• 370 862 employed Persons / 49 797 Companies

are Members of Leipzig CCI• Branches: Industry 15,2%, Building Industry

11,9%, Trade 13,7%, Traffic / Communikation 6,7 %, Services / Public Services 50,3 %, Agriculture 2,2%

• 300 areas approved for commercial building development with almost 4.300 hectares from witch 2/3 already are occupied

For our future: Education in Leipzig

• One of Europe‘s leading universities, est. in 1409

• private Leipzig Graduate School of Management

• Technical, Theatre and a graphic arts highschool

• A great diversity of institutions of higher education incl. an English International School

Education

Internationally renowned scientists do research in Leipzig

• Researchers of world renown at Max Planck Institutes

• High-tech medicine: the University‘s Heart Centre

• Molecular and Bio-medicine at the Max Bürger Research Centre

• The Leipzig-Halle Centre of Environmental

Research

• International Transfer Centre for

Environmental Technology

Science & Research

Coal: Industry ...

• Since more than 150 years brown coal open cast working

• Industrial concentration Leipzig-Halle-Dessau

• Today: replacement of old coal power plants

• Lippendorf - one of the most modern coal power plants world-wide

Changing Image

... and Nature

• Open cast working caused deformation of the landscape

• Today: wounds seen as heritage and chance

• Development of a unique lake landscape in the south of Leipzig (Expo - project)

• New room for nature and recreation

Changing Image

Innovation - New ideas for the future

• Partner for innovations: Chamber of Commerce, University, HTWK, HHL

• Business & Innovation Centre (BIC):

Partner of competence for creating and developing business - the perfect address for innovative companies

• Research companies

Specific expertise centres: KUZ (Leipzig Plastics Centre), SID (Saxon Institute for the Printing Industry), ZFA (Centre for Handling and Elevating Technology), IfE (Institute for Energy)

Science & Research

Leipzig Trade Fair - Modern facilities on a traditional location

• The World oldest trade fair with history - 824 years old

• 1895 first sample trade fair, 1920 first technical fair

• Modern exhibition & convention centre, opened in 1996

• Approx. 30 trade shows and events per year

The Leipzig Fair

Leipzig - Centre of Commerce

• 1886 mail order established in Leipzig

• Quelle - the world‘s largest and most modern mail order house centre

• First factory outlet centre in the city centre

• Wholesail: 2,000 operations in the Leipzig region

• Retail: 9,700 retail outlets

Services & Trade

Germany‘s Power and Energy Exchange in Leipzig

• On June 15, 2000 LPX - the German Power and Energy Exchange- started trading

• Around 7000 MWH are traded per day (new record: trade volume of 9.358 MWh on 10 August 2000)

• 24 hours trading• Goal: Till 2003 20% of the

power and energy market in Germany shall be traded via LPX

Services & Trade

Leipzig - City of the book and more

• German National Library with 11 Mio. books (since 1912)

• German Central Library for the blind (since 1894)

• 1660 the world’s first newspaper published

• The Leipzig Book Fair

• Centre for book conservation

Media

Leipzig - the Media Centre • 19th century - centre of the media industry

• Today: media and telematics sector key areas of growth

• Annual turnover of media companies in Leipzig approx. DM 3.9 bill.

• Publishing houses (162), printing-offices (151), information-processing companies (83), film production (3), recording studios (10) etc.

• In total 2633 companies in the media sector

• Headquarter of MDR, Germany‘s 4th largest

public broadcasting company

• The Leipzig Book Fair and the Festival of

Documentary and Animated Films

Media

Economic change: traditional and ...

• Central Germany with the central cities

of Leipzig, Halle, Dessau (2.6 mill.

inhabitants) has seen the fastest

economic change and growth within

the new German Federal States

• Sectors:

– energy and brown coal sector, chemical industry, casting technology, mechanical and construction engineering, construction

Industry

... new industries

– electrical engineering, glass

and paper production and

processing, printing and

plastic industry

– environmental, medical and

communications technology

• Approx. 200,000 companies have

been founded since 1990

Industry

Leipzig - top address for investments

• Situated right within a triangle of chemical industry locations (Dow Chemicals, Heraeus, Bayer, Elf Aquitaine)

• Renowned car manufacturer PORSCHE invest into a new plant in Leipzig

• Leipzig companies are suppliers to the automotive industry

• Production site for High-tech made by Siemens AG(Dr. Volker Jung, Managing Board Siemens: "The approval of planing permission in only six weeks - that´s a quick turn around, something we can usually only dream of.")

Industry

Why chosen Leipzig ?

Wendelin Wiedeking, CEO:

"The excellent transport connections and the beautiful of the city make Leipzig a perfect location. The outlook of the people and the break „away mood“ suite Porsche."

Why chosen Leipzig ?

Prof. Joachim Milberg, CEO BMW,about Leipzig on press-conference July 18th 2001:

„Optimal infrastructure, favourable real estate prices, a very flexible administration, rich human resources potential and the excellent geo-strategic position in the centre of Europe.“

“Small but beautiful”

• Ebert Kettenspanntechnik GmbH– Innovation of the ROLL-RING chain

tensioner– New working mechanism

• Centre for book conservation: – World-wide decay of book stocks (25%

menaced by decay)

– Scientific technical peak level

– Know-how of many years, technical and human resources of high quality

– Specialised in automated methods, paper splitting machine

Innovative companies

“The heavy duty specialist”• KIROW Leipzig AG

– The world’s leading supplier of

railway cranes (more than 5000

sold cranes)

– Manufacturing of shipyard-

transporters, slag pot carrier and

pallet transporter

– Annual turnover of 150 mill. DM

(incl. KOCKS Krane International

and KE Kranbau Eberswalde)

Innovative companies

“Skin made of hair”

• BioCare biotechnology for

therapy GmbH

– Products for the treatment of

chronic wounds

– Tissue cultivation for medical

application

– Cultivation of skin tissue by

cells of the hair root for

transplantations

Innovative companies

The future of the traditional casting industry

• Kern GmbH Leipzig

– Development of proceedings to

cast magnesium to

manufacture complicate forms

– Production of light-weightier

vehicle and other components

– Offer of prototypes being tested

and modified on behalf of the

customers

Innovative companies

Leipzig - a region in upheaval

The chamber’s district