Grow your business in the Leipzig Region
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We support you in setting up your business in the Leipzig Region!
In the centre of Europe, the Leipzig Region offers optimal conditions for your company’s successful overseas expansion or start-up. By locating your company in Leipzig, you will benefit from a first-class multimodal transport network, excellent availability of affordable commercial land and premises, as well as highly motivated and qualified specialists across all industries.
Contact us now to benefit from our free-of-charge services and individual support - be it related to location advice, funding opportunities or recruiting staff!
The Leipzig Region is one of the most flourishing business locations in Germany
Located in the heart of Europe, Leipzig is in an excellent strategic location for your business. The Leipzig Region offers a first-class trimodal connection to the national, European and global transport network, an outstanding technical and social infrastructure, high availability of attractive space and highly qualified specialists from all sectors - coupled with a remarkable quality of life.
All these factors continuously attract people and companies to the Leipzig economic region and at the same time act as compelling and sustainable arguments to stay.
News & Events
Coding Giants chooses Leipzig as its new DACH headquarters
Coding Giants from Warsaw chooses Leipzig as its new location. The EdTech experts offer special programming courses for children. Find out more...
HH2E settles in Borna
Mit der Ansiedlung des innovativen Unternehmens HH2E in Borna entsteht im Industrie- und Gewerbegebiet "Goldener Born" in Thierbach im Landkreis Leipzig eine neue Anlage zur Produktion von grünem
"Markranstädt was chosen because of its favourable location. The links to the A9 and A14 motorways and the proximity of a major supplier and a major customer of Morssinkhof-Rymoplast are major plus points. On the other hand, the Dutch company was very impressed by the regional business development programme. The business development agency Invest Region Leipzig GmbH, the city of Markranstädt and the district of Leipzig, including the district administrator's economic development department, worked hand in hand and opened doors."
Straight from Helsinki: iPhone-refurbisher and Europe’s fastest growing company 2022 Swappie Oy expands global presence with establishing Swappie Germany GmbH in Leipzig.
Daniel Schwemmer, Sales Manager
"Invest Region Leipzig's professional demeanour reinforced our decision. The service is free of charge, the working method is very structured and you immediately realise that Invest Region Leipzig is not doing this for the first time. Everything has a solid foundation."
Eileen Walther, Country Manager Germany, NORTHWAVE Intelligent Security Operations
Northwave is the leading cyber security company in the Netherlands. Growing rapidly, with over 150 employees, it has opened its first German headquarters at the business location in Leipzig, alongside Utrecht and Brussels
Philipp Göllner, CEO XALT GmbH
"The city of Leipzig impresses me in many ways: it is an attractive, young and, above all, growing city with a creative start-up scene. These developments correspond to our ideas of a dynamic environment in which we want to prosper and realise our innovative visions."
Penning Sanitär, a company with over 115 years of experience in sanitary wholesale, laid the foundation for further growth this year and established a new location in Leipzig. Following branches in Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, Penning Sanitär successfully moved into its new business premises in Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße in September 2023. Invest Region Leipzig GmbH (IRL) was able to provide significant support for this important step in the company's development.
Marcus Petzold, Branch Manager
"A big compliment goes to the commitment of Invest Region Leipzig and the centrality it offers. We were supported in our search for premises, networking with local networks and in our search for specialists. The city gave us a warm welcome and all Natuvions who use the office in Schlossgasse quickly feel very much at home."
Jens Ziegler, Geschäftsstellenleiter Leipzig
„Unser Berater von der Invest Region Leipzig hat sehr gut verstanden, was wir für eine Immobilie suchen und passgenau zugearbeitet. Er hat mir dann auch den Tipp für die Beantragung von Fördermitteln gegeben. Außerdem haben wir den Fachkräfteservice genutzt. Das lief sehr gut. Ohne die Unterstützung der Invest Region Leipzig wäre es gerade bei der Bürosuche ein Stück weit schwieriger geworden.“
Ingmar Bergmann, Regionalmanager Region East
"A high potential of skilled labour, especially from the universities and colleges in the Saxon region, was an advantage for us. There is also a good investment climate for SMEs, thanks to the support of the SAB, which helped us a lot ... The discussions and advice provided by Invest Region Leipzig GmbH also helped us."
Die SRH Hochschulen eröffnen zum Wintersemester 2024/25 einen weiteren Campus in Leipzig.
Leipzig, 14 March 2024 - The SRH universities are opening a new campus in Leipzig for the 2024/25 winter semester. The new university building is located at Prager Straße 40 in the immediate vicinity of the SRH Vocational Training Centre, which has been located at Prager Straße 38 since 2019.
Sebastian Dietzmann, COO & Managing Director Mytheresa
"Leipzig is a European metropolitan region that can boast a great success story with fantastic development in recent decades and will continue to do so in the long term. There are already strong local companies and extraordinarily good universities. The quality of life in the Leipzig region is high, coupled with affordable and available housing, which is definitely attractive for workers of all kinds."
Tobias Drechsel, CEO Thinkport GmbH
"We are delighted to have taken this step and moved to Leipzig to be able to further develop Thinkport ... Invest Region Leipzig made it extremely easy for us to get started in Leipzig. In particular, the personal support and the information provided about the location helped us to get an overview. I can really recommend contacting the IRL if you are considering expanding to Leipzig."
Alexander Türpe, Chief People & Culture Officer bei powercloud
"We have always underestimated the region in terms of how to grow here. It is now much more than what we had originally planned ... I didn't think we would grow like this so quickly. But I am happy that we have found so many good people. Hardly any city in Germany is more beautiful and has so much quality of life and further potential."