1. Strategically optimal location in the heart of Europe
Leipzig has long been a city shaped by trade and transformation. As a historic trade fair location, it offers an ideal gateway to the fast-growing markets of Central and Eastern Europe.
Clear strategies, efficient decision-making, mobility, and speed are key drivers of growth — and many companies have taken notice. Investors are increasingly choosing Leipzig as a business location, relocating production, opening new offices, and establishing strong, future-oriented enterprises.
2. Region with a future-oriented business structure
Leipzig is actively investing in forward-looking sectors and supporting the development of strong industry clusters. Businesses with complementary activities collaborate in networks, strengthening ties between industry and research and development.
The region’s most promising clusters include:
- ICT & Digital Technology – software, cloud services, AI, XR/gaming, industrial software.
- Life Sciences / Health & Biotechnology – biotech, med-tech, health logistics, gene therapy.
- GreenTech / Energy & Environmental Technology – renewable energy, grids, storage, e-mobility infrastructure.
- Automotive & Mobility – vehicle manufacturing, suppliers, mobility services and e-mobility.
- Advanced Manufacturing – high-tech production, materials, Industry 4.0.
- Logistics & E-Commerce – global logistics hub, fulfilment, supply-chain excellence.
- Media, Creative & Cultural Industries – digital media, design, film, architecture, creative tech.
3. Excellent connection to the transportation infrastructure
Leipzig lies at the intersection of two major European transport corridors and has benefitted from this central position for centuries. While covered wagons once travelled the medieval trade routes, today the region is shaped by a state-of-the-art logistics and transportation infrastructure:
- Leipzig/Halle Airport serves as a major gateway for global trade, logistics, and tourism.
- The city and the modern trade fair grounds are directly connected to the motorway network.
- Leipzig Central Station offers an outstanding combination of passenger transport, logistics, retail, and services.
4. Attractive Investment Incentives
We support you when it comes to targeted investment funding:
- Joint Federal/Länder scheme for improving the regional economic structure
- Investment subsidies
- Urban development funding programme
- Funding for rural areas
5. Inexpensive Land and Properties
A variety of land and commercial properties are available to meet all business requirements, from office and retail spaces to production facilities, halls, and warehouses.
6. Leipzig Economic Region – the right choice for your investment
Many well-known companies- including DHL, Porsche, and BMW- have chosen to invest in the region. Their presence has encouraged a growing network of service companies to settle nearby.
7. Unbureaucratic support services and fast approval procedures
Leipzig CCI supports and advises entrepreneurs in collaboration with regional promoters of economic development. Planning and approval procedures are completed quickly and unbureaucratically.
8. Leipzig, a region for business – the right place for your trade show exhibition
As one of Europe’s oldest trade fair cities, Leipzig has retained its unique character through the centuries. Today, Leipziger Messe GmbH combines this tradition with a modern, market-driven approach. Its priorities include strengthening international activities and continuously improving services for exhibitors and attendees.
9. A scientific hub – research and teaching for the future
Leipzig guarantees well trained specialised staff in all areas of a future-oriented economy as a city of science with its universities, universities of applied science and research centres:
- University of Leipzig
offers scientifically sound and practical degree programmes in humanities and natural sciences as well as medicine and is Germany’s second oldest university (since 1409). - Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL)
founded in 1898 as the first institution for business administration and is one of the leading private elite universities for modern management in Germany. - Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK)
The University of Applied Sciences focuses on engineering and business administration and is highly practical. - Renowned Research Institutes and Centres
The Max-Planck institutes, various Fraunhofer institutes and the German Biomass Research Center as well as the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and further renowned research institutes and centres represent the scientific-technical advance in the region.
10. Leipzig Economic Region – Culture, Art, Tourism, Leisure and Sport
Leipzig has numerous tourist attractions that are always worth seeing:
- St. Thomas’s Church and the Bach Festival
- Gewandhaus and Leipzig Opera, Old City Hall and the Historical City Centre
- Auerbachs Keller, world-famous because of the „Auerbachs Keller“ scene in Goethe’s „Faust“
- Battle of the Nations Monument: The monument commemorates the 1813 Battle of the Nations and was completed in 1913.
- Leipzig Zoo with the giant tropical hall “Gondwanaland”
- Water tourism on Leipzig’s rivers and multifaceted use of the nearby lakes
Leipzig is a city of sports – for spectators and athletes:
- Red-Bull-Arena: architecturally and technically highly modern football stadium with 45,000 seats
- ARENA LEIPZIG - a modern multi-purpose indoor sports hall in the City of Sports
- 377 sports associations provide training in 90 different sports
- Top-level German sports promoted at Leipzig Olympic training centre
- several golf courses in Leipzig and surroundings
