Cottbus Business

The food industry is one of the strongest turnover industries in the State of Brandenburg. An ideal test market for the introduction of new products is available as a result of Cottbus’s proximity to the dense population centers in Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig. The available base of necessary raw materials supplies high performance agriculture. Service industries such as packing, manufacturing and logistics centers have already settled in the region and guarantee the shortest most direct ways to final consumers.

Location profile

• As a traditional base for the meat processing, baked goods and beverage industries the Cottbus region provides an optimal starting point for
• transnational cooperation with the Republic of Poland and other central and Eastern European countries with
• direct market access to Eastern Europe and more than 250 million consumers
• R&D capacities for food production in Berlin and Brandenburg
• cooperation possibilities with medium-size food processing companies in Cottbus and the adjacent region (Gourmet, Kunella)
• combined with particularly excellent use of “twin location effect” (doubling their local strategy in the area close to the border)
• The Cottbus region also has a high number of qualified specialists in the food and luxury services with
• personnel costs lower than average due to seasonal Polish work forces within the border community
• as well as attractive, low-priced trade properties, cultivated properties, buildings with equipment and hygienic standards, storage facilities
• together with the best promotional possibilities in Europe