Stadt-Land-Rhein

So you’ve come to the Lower Rhine?

You’re in the right place. Welcome to the Lower Rhine, where more than 100,000 companies are based and more than two million people from the Rhineland live. The Lower Rhine economy – that is an impressive combination of competitive investment conditions, strong infrastructure on land, water and in the air, and a high quality of life. Here, in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia along the Rhine between the Ruhr metropolitan region and the Netherlands, German and international companies especially in electrical engineering / mechanical engineering, energy, chemicals, textiles / clothing, agrobusiness, logistics and tourism shape the business world.

Municipalities

Six municipalities – two million inhabitants

The Niederrhein region has two million inhabitants in the two cities Krefeld and Mönchengladbach as well as in the four districts Kleve, Viersen, Wesel and Rhein-Kreis Neuss. The Niederrhein municipalities currently have around 30 key commercial property projects in the development stage.

Business service

Service provider for investors and companies

Standort Niederrhein GmbH provides data and analyses on the Lower Rhine regional economy and is the first port of call for investors and companies that are inter-ested in investing or doing business in the Lower Rhine region. Why not use us as an information platform for your business on the Lower Rhine?

Sectors

Export rate at around 50 percent

The business world in the Lower Rhine region is shaped by six core industries: agrobusiness, chemicals, energy generation, logistics electrical engineering / mechanical engineering, textiles / clothing, and tourism. The 100,000 plus companies on the Lower Rhine generate almost every second euro abroad.

Foreign trade

Good ideas know no boundaries

Local, regional and national markets are growing to-gether to become global trading spots. This development brings companies opportunities – but also requires them to adapt. The foreign business development department at Standort Niederrhein GmbH helps companies in the Lower Rhine region to develop their export business and intermational cooperation.

Heads and Stories

Katjes Fassin GmbH & Co. KG

In the Lower Rhine region they have been busy harvesting licorice for almost six decades now. In 1950 a company was founded here which would go on to become one of the best-known trademarks in Germany.

News

Come and visit us at EXPO REAL 2010 in Munich.

4 – 6 October 2010
Hall B1, Stand 312

Typical Niederrhein: cheeky advertising!

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