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THE STAGE FOR YOUR SUCCESS FACTS, FIGURES & CONTACTS www.halle-investvision.com WELCOME TO HALLE (SAALE)! CONTENTS WHAT THE CITY OFFERS Dear Reader, 2 A Business Location for Visionaries Halle (Saale) is a dynamic city of culture, the birth- spin-offs from research facilities. Wein- place of Georg Friedrich Handel and Germany's berg Campus, the second largest techno- 3 Excellent Reasons in Favour of Halle (Saale) greenest major city offering a wide range of facilities logy park in eastern Germany, supports in- for sport and leisure. Culture, business and science novative fields of the future and promotes 4 Top Location – Outstanding Transport Connections form an irresistible trinity here. They provide the ba- new developments in the bioscience and sis for the promising future of this growing cosmopo- nano industries. The university institutes 6 A Dynamic Labour Market litan city with its celebrated universities and research on the campus alone are home to 8,000 institutes. Further features of the city are its distin- up-and-coming natural scientists. The 8 Benefits of the Location – the Facts guished cultural and artistic institutions, including campus is also the meeting place for start- an opera house, theatres, choirs, the Staatskapelle up businesses and entrepreneurs on the 10 Life and Leisure in Handel's Birthplace orchestra, museums, art galleries and cinemas. The one hand and on the other researchers annual international Handel Festival is a special high- from the MLU, Max Planck, Fraunhofer light in the city's calendar. and Leibniz institutes as well as the Helm- holtz Association. So far over €1 billion has SECTORS OF INDUSTRY & LOCATIONS As a business location Halle (Saale) offers a vibrant been invested here. More than 100 com- mix of traditional and future-oriented sectors of in- panies and institutes with around 5,600 12 Industry & Logistics dustry. The city is home not just to internationally suc- employees are already established here. cessful multimedia and biotechnology enterprises, 16 Technology & Innovation but also to market leaders in the service industries, Halle (Saale) is also home to a number of institutions the foodstuffs and luxury goods industry, logistics with national and international operations. These in- 18 Hotels, Service & Retail and start-ups in the fields of design and IT. Compa- clude the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences nies with global operations have established a base and the Federal German Cultural Foundation (Kul- 20 Cultural Industries for themselves on the Star Park Halle Industrial Park turstiftung). In the Franckesche Stiftungen (Francke and are experiencing strong growth there. They be- Foundations) Halle has a baroque centre of educa- nefit from direct links to the nearby airport, motorway tion and the cradle of Pietism spanning the gap bet- and rail freight terminal. In addition to its excellent ween the Reformation and the Enlightenment. FULL–SERVICE infrastructure Star Park offers investors land for im- mediate construction. The city attaches value to fast Halle (Saale) has positioned itself as a city for active 24 Central Contact Persons approvals processes and providing central contact people from all generations and a special location for partners as a service to business throughout the enti- culture, business and science – in other words, just re municipal area. the city for you and your operations. Halle (Saale) is the largest city in Saxony-Anhalt with a I am delighted to welcome you to Halle (Saale)! population of over 238,000. As a centre for the scien- ces and business innovation the city is home to Mar- Dr. Bernd Wiegand tin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), pres- Mayor of Halle (Saale) tigious research institutes, the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and numerous 1 A BUSINESS LOCATION EXCELLENT REASONS IN FOR VISIONARIES FAVOUR OF HALLE (SAALE) POTENTIAL LOCATIONAL BENEFITS Halle (Saale) represents a successful interdisciplinary trinity of cul- ture, business and science. Outstanding locational advantages, in- A CENTRAL LOCATION AND HIGHLY-QUALIFIED PERSONNEL AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED novation and quality of life all combine to create outstanding condi- LOGISTIC LINKS · Well-trained specialist workers thanks RESEARCH LOCATION · in the heart of Europe to extensive educational facilities · The Leopoldina German National Academy tions. Successful entrepreneurs confirm that the preconditions for · Halle / Leipzig international airport · Competitive cost structure · of Sciences the achievement of bold visions are perfect here. and the European hub of the DHL Group · University graduates with · Institutes of all major German research only 12.5 km away a wide range of specialisations organisations · A direct connection to the newly expanded · The city's university is over 500 years old · Eastern Germany's second-largest A14, A9, A38 and A143 motorway network · Further universities of applied technology park In Halle (Saale) international and regional companies Successful entrepreneurs in Halle (Saale) confirm that · New train formation depot: the latest sciences in the immediate vicinity · A positive climate for innovation benefit from made-to-measure infrastructure. The their decision in favour of this location was the right €500-million investment by Deutsche Bahn · with nearly 22,000 students · A fertile start-up landscape and business performance capacity of the location is confirmed by one. The city is home not just to internationally suc- incubator with the focus on media and dynamic business development which benefits from cessful multimedia and biotechnology enterprises, technology-oriented innovation fast access to Europe's major cities and business but also to market leaders in service industries, the · A university, two universities of applied centres. Visionaries can be sure here that the right foodstuffs and luxury goods industry, logistics and sciences framework conditions are in place, the development start-ups in the fields of design and IT. These and opportunities are good and the support from local many more success stories speak for themselves, and government is efficient. confirm the ideal preconditions which visionaries and Rostock investors find here – in the heart of Germany and at Hamburg Bremen the centre of Europe. A OUTSTANDING EUROPEAN THE GREENEST MAJOR CITY IN GERMANY Hannover Berlin ECONOMIC AREA · With the best quality of life Halle · A historically developed industrial location and attractive leisure opportunities (Saale) “We're in Halle because it can offer us Dortmund · Investment of billions, particularly in · Handel's birthplace, with the Handel Leipzig well-qualified staff. In the engineering Dusseldorf infrastructure, logistics and industry Festival and a diverse music and Cologne Dresden field the potential is tremendous here.” · One of the best-performing locations theatre scene Frankfurt am Main in the heart of Europe · The most populous city in Saxony- DANIEL GOLLMANN Nuremberg · International brands such as eBay, Anhalt with constantly growing CEO of Gollmann Kommissioniersysteme GmbH Stuttgart Coca Cola and DELL and companies such population numbers of some 238,000 as BMW, Porsche, Linde and QCells Munich “In Halle top performance is easy: Dell Halle is now the backbone of Dell Deutschland.” SANYAI TYAGI Executive Director & General Manager Dell Germany GmbH 2 3 TOP LOCATION - OUTSTANDING Hanover Berlin Hamburg 170 km Bitterfeld-Wolfen TRANSPORT CONNECTIONS Löbejün Berlin Potsdam Wettin Dessau INFRASTRUCTURE Saale 14 Oppin Airpot Halle (Saale) 9 Only an hour away from Berlin, greater Halle is one of the fastest growing regions in eastern Landsberg Delitzsch Germany. Its modern infrastructure makes a major contribution to this growth. 14 Leipzig-Halle International-Airport Frankfurt Erfurt 143 380 km Frankfurt Modern, made-to-measure infrastructure makes a Munich 14 major contribution to growth in Halle (Saale). The 38 Leipzig city's location at the heart of central Germany and Weiße Dresden Saale excellent global transport links enable effective pro- Bad Elster Lauchstädt Buna duction, sales and working operations. Important INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT Merseburg Bad infrastructure components are Leipzig / Halle airport, Dürrenberg Leuna 9 Dresden the A9, A14, A38 and A143 motorways, and an excel- Prag 38 lent rail network. 14 DHL HUB WITH 24/7 OPERATIONS SIZE AND POPULATION & NIGHT-FLIGHT PERMIT Jena 38 City area 135 km² Pleiße 38 Green spaces & waterways 57 % Residents per km² 1,759 Munich THE LARGEST TRAIN FORMATION DEPOT 9 0 5 10 km Foreign proportion 7.69 % IN EASTERN GERMANY* 450 km As of: 2016 *under construction, completion in 2018 AIR TRANSPORT ROAD TRANSPORT RAIL NETWORK LEIPZIG/HALLE MOTORWAYS HALLE (SAALE) MAIN STATION INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT Central German motorway network modern ICE connection Germany's second-largest freight air- · A9 Munich – Halle – Berlin · The most important transport port and the fifth largest in Europe · A14 Dresden – Halle – Magdeburg hub in Saxony-Anhalt 2,500 km Distance from Halle (Saale) 18 km/14 min · A38 Göttingen – Halle – Leipzig · High speed: the extension of the ICE Sprinter 2,000 km Flights in 2015 65,061 · A143 Halle western bypass (under construction) line will connect Berlin – Halle – Munich (linking A14 and A38) (infrastructure investment of €700 million, New York Flights per week up to 250 1,500 km Stockholm · A14 northern extension Magdeburg – Schwerin completion in 2017) 6,350 km Oslo Freight/postal volume 2015 988,240
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