Services and Contacts
Berlin Partner for Business and Technology is the central contact agency in Berlin helping investors settle in the city, assisting local companies in all matters relating to foreign trade, and promoting the capital as a business location.
Business Location Center is the economic portal for the capital region. It makes available current sector data, real estate listings, labor market and structural information, and economic development programs and offers support with the search for commercial real estate, help in questions regarding economic development funding and financing, as well as providing and training skilled employees.
The Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) is the development bank of the state of Berlin and provides support primarily for innovative, technology-orientated small and medium sized companies with economic development programs as well as advice on financing.
The IHK Berlin is a mouthpiece for many companies, actively promoting Berlin as a place to do business. The services, advice and statutory functions of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Berlin (IHK Berlin) extend to the fields of regional development policy, start-up support and business development, training and further education, innovation and the environment, international issues, as well as law and fair play.
Messe Berlin is among the top ten exhibition center companies with the highest turnovers in the world and offers comprehensive service to exhibitors, convention organizers and visitors.
visitBerlin is a service agency from Berlin Tourismus & Kongress which acts as a partner for conventions and tourism and informs visitors to the capital about its tourist attractions.
The Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit – BA) is the labor market's biggest service provider. As a public body with self-governance it acts independently within the framework of applicable law.
The common register portal of the German federal states offers an overview of the registers for companies, cooperative societies and partnerships, and in part the register for associations of all federal states, as well as the disclosures contained in the registers.
The German Nationwide Register of Experts contains information on 8503 experts appointed and attested by chambers of commerce, architectural associations, chambers of engineering and chambers of agriculture, as well as experts publicly appointed and attested by federal state governments.
The business database of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Berlin contains information on more than 60,000 Berlin companies and is orientated in particular towards interested parties who are searching for business partners.
The Federal Foreign Office is responsible for maintaining Germany's relations with other states, as well as with inter-governmental and supranational organizations and it also promotes foreign economic relations.
Export and foreign trade are important pillars of the Germany economy. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology supports German businesses in accessing foreign markets and at the same time recruits foreign investors.
The customs authority offers comprehensive information, including customs tariffs and processes, as well as on the posting of employees and on the protection of intellectual property.
Germany Trade and Invest is the economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. Furthermore, Germany Trade & Invest informs and advises international companies setting up business in Germany and promotes the economic development of Germany's new federal states, including Berlin.
Last edited: 7. October 2015
(Bilder: Berlin Partner / Monique Wüstenhagen; Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH; Investitionsbank Berlin; IHK Berlin; Messe Berlin GmbH; Berlin Tourismus & Kongress GmbH; Bundesagentur für Arbeit; sxc.hu/CELALTEBER; Google; Berlin.de; IHK-GfI mbH; Auswärtiges Amt; Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie; Bundesministerium der Finanzen; Germany Trade & Invest; Berlin Partner)
