
For investors
Let our regional advantages be your competitive edge!
With around 90 000 inhabitants, East-Belgium adjoins the borders of the Netherlands, Germany and the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg. The region offers a series of advantages not found in such a convenient constellation elsewhere, advantages which can bring a competitive edge to any business considering either start-up, relocation or expansion:
1. Advantageous geographical position
Lying
in the heart of northwestern Europe, your East-Belgian company site
would be within 4 trucking hours of more than 40 million potential
consumers. This represents roughly 20 % of the combined buying power of
the expanded European Union.
This convenient geographical situation,
with regard to such important European manufacturing, service and
population centres as the cities of the Ruhr and Rhineland, Aachen,
Liege, Brussels and Luxemburg, is a vital factor in the region´s
economic life.
2. Excellent infrastructure
East-Belgium is connected directly with the
pan-European motorway network via the E40 (Brussels-Liege-Cologne) and
the E42 (Lille-Namur-Trier). Five airports, Europe´s second-largest
freshwater port (Liege) as well as several major rail stations (with
TGV connections) are within a brief journey´s reach. East-Belgium
offers attractive, well connected Industrial and Commercial zones with
available infrastructure to meet a wide variety of requirements
.
3. Multi-skilled, highly trained workforce
Thanks
to a regional mandate for primary, secondary and higher education, as
well as vocational training and employment issues, the relevant
ministries in German-speaking East-Belgium are in close contact with
the region´s commercial and industrial pulse. This results in speed and
flexibility to meet changing or developing demands. To high-quality
schooling may be added a diversity of further education opportunities:
several universities and technical high schools, as well as a variety
of academies, training centres, design, research and development
institutes and industrial parks can be found in the surrounding area.
4. Multi-lingual population
East-Belgium
lies on the junction of four language regions (German, French, Dutch
and the Luxemburg dialect), which translates into a large proportion of
the population being fluent or competent in various combinations of
these, as well as having a sound working knowledge of English. The
cultural identity of the region also serves as a positive vector for
exchange and trade, combining aspects of both Germanic and Romanic
cultural mentality.
5. Stable industrial relations
A sound consultative basis to industrial relations
between employers and employees guarantees social stability while
supporting economic advancement in East-Belgium.
6. High quality of life
The "in-between" geography of East-Belgium provides for fast and easy access to dense urban markets and industrial production areas both inland and abroad, yet without any of the disadvantages of actually having to live there. The richly diverse and beautiful natural landscape of East-Belgium is matched by the variety of leisure and sporting activities available there all the year round, while a tradition of hospitality and superb gastronomy can only add to the charms of this already highly attractive region.
If we have whetted your appetite, please feel free to contact us for any further information you may require.
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