Präsentation der Region Leipzig für die Wirtschaftsjunioren und andere Unternehmer in Barcelona im Rahmen der Olympiabewerbung Leipzig 2014 von Lars Bosse, IHK zu Leipzig

1. Leipzig - a region in upheaval
The chamber’s district

2. Business Card Leipzig
“City of the 100 DM bank-note”
Nikolaikirche - Thomaskirche - Altes Rathaus - Gewandhaus 1884 - etc.

6. 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

7. Location
• Approx. 500,000 inhabitants Warsaw
Leipzig
Praha
Berlin
Frankfurt/M
720 km
265 km
359 km
160 km
• 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

8. 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

9. Berlin
Hannover
Hamburg
Infrastructure
Dresden
Krakow (PL)
Prague
Kassel
Frankfurt/M
Nürnberg
Munich
Chemnitz
Viena
Intercontinental Airport

10. 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

11. 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

12. Train-
Connections:
Berlin Center 50´
Dresden 60´
Munich Center 3 h
1,5 h Berlin City
2 h Hannover
1 h Dresden
10´ Freight Village
3,5 h Munich

13. Connected to the world
• Leipzig ranks among the world‘s
Top Ten in advanced
communication 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

14. 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

15. 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,
Mendelssohn
Goethe, Schiller, Schumann, Leibniz, Lortzing
• Gewandhaus - great orchestra & top
conductors like Kurt Mazur
• over 300 year tradition with own opera
• 5 theaters and 5 cabarets

16. Tradition & Culture
Poets, musicians and philosophers
Bach
Mendelssohn Schumann
Schiller Goethe
Leibniz
Lortzing
Wagner

17. Sports City Leipzig
2002: German gymnastic Event
Ladies Volleyball-Word-Championship
2006: Soccer World Championship
2012: Olympic Games in Leipzig (?)

18. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. ... 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. ... 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

33. 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.")

34. 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."

35. 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.“

36. “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

37. “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

38. “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

39. 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

40. Leipzig - a region in upheaval
The chamber’s district