Business Location

Population and purchasing power:

• 60,000 inhabitants from around 120 nations
• 32,000 workforce liable for social insurance
• 24,000 commuters
• Indicator of purchasing power: 105

Trade:

• 3,700 trades of which 39 are industrial trades, 400 crafts and 740 retailers
• Rate of assessment for trade tax: 390%
• Attractive industrial estates with interesting new developments: In the latest industrial estate Blauer See Business Park, two logistic companies, World Courier and Cargo Movers, settled in 2009. In 2010, the print centre Rhine-Main will start operation for the publishing company Verlagsgruppe Rhein-Main and the media business Medienhaus Südhessen. Hewlett Packard is building a state-of-the-art computer centre, which will open in 2011
• Favourable property and rental rates (property market)
• In the city centre of Rüsselsheim, the Opel Forum, the new development on the site of the old Opel site,
  offers opportunities for shopping, living and exploring the world of the automobile
  

Focus Automobile Industry:

• 30 of the 50 worldwide leading automobile suppliers have their headquarters in or around Rüsselsheim
• The city of Rüsselsheim is a member in the Automotive Cluster RheinMainNeckar
• Rüsselsheim has succeeded in changing from a city focusing on production
  to a place with a focus on research and development
• A large number of research institutes related to the automotive industry have settled in the region
  (Fraunhofer Institute of Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF, the German Institute for Polymers,
  Centre for Integrated Transport Systems)
• International automobile competence in and around Rüsselsheim:

International Technical Devolpment & Design Center		Headquarters & Car Production
European Development Center		European Development & European Design Center
German Headquarters		Enterprise Services
Customer Service Center		University of Applied Sciences

City of Engineers:

The entrepreneurial spirit of Adam Opel, intellectual force and technological pioneer, has shaped the life in Rüsselsheim for nearly 150 years. Entrepreneurial activity and engineering knowhow have remained the extraordinary strengths of the city to this day:

• 25% of all jobs are in the area of research and development
• 30% of all commercial investments are done in the area of research and development
• Perfect conditions for pioneering industries

Innovative technological products from Rüsselsheim have a long tradition: bicycles, sewing machines, refrigerators, automobiles and the legendary rocket car RAK 1 are technological milestones ‘Made in Rüsselsheim’. The first automobile assembly line production of Germany and Europe was set up in Rüsselsheim and in 1909 the first car which was also affordable to the middle class was built by Opel – the so-called Opel doctor’s car. The ‘lean field’ erected by Opel in 2003 as one of the most modern automobile plants in the world still provides a benchmark for today’s automobile industry.