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
Interview with Peter Ledermann: Unite's expansion in Leipzig
Find out more about the development of Unite, formerly Mercateo, and why the company moved its headquarters to Leipzig. Peter Ledermann talks about the reasons for the choice of location, the unique
Leipzig-Houston: Strengthening business contacts
Michael Körner and Julia Binder from Invest Region Leipzig travelled to Houston with a delegation from the City of Leipzig to deepen economic relations. Read the official press release from the City
Interview with OPES Solar Mobility
Back in March, we had the opportunity to speak to the new Zwenkau-based company OPES Solar Mobility. The revitalisation of the former Solarion hall is not only of great importance for the town, but
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."
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."
Straight from Helsinki: iPhone-refurbisher and Europe’s fastest growing company 2022 Swappie Oy expands global presence with establishing Swappie Germany GmbH in Leipzig.
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.
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.“
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.
Since its foundation in 2012, Alexander Thamm GmbH [at] has developed into one of the leading consultancies for data science, big data and artificial intelligence in the German-speaking world. With currently over 300 employees at 10 locations (Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt a.M., Stuttgart, Leipzig, Essen, Innsbruck, Vienna, St. Gallen/Gossau), the company supports clients from all industries.
"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."
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
SKELETON Technologies has chosen Markranstädt as the location for its new "Gigafactory". In future, pioneering supercapacitors and battery technologies will be developed and built here.
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."
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."
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."
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."