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Business Overview
Dusseldorf is home to the leading advertising industry of Germany. The city houses 400 advertising agencies amongst which three are the largest in Germany. A number of affiliates of famous foreign agencies also reside in the city such as Ogilvy & Mather, Dentsu and DDB. Apart from these, many Internet agencies in Dusseldorf also have their roots in the world of advertising.

Playing an important role in the financial world, the city is home to around 170 national and international financial institutions, about 130 insurance agencies and one of the biggest German stock exchanges. Dusseldorf is Germany's leading center of foreign trade. At present, the city is home to about 5,000 branch offices of foreign companies.

The geographical location of the city in the center of Europe makes it an ideal venue for various events and conventions like Frankfurt. Apart from exhibiting 25 world-wide leading fairs, Dusseldorf holds some of the most important international fashion and other trade shows every year like Beauty International, CPD Dusseldorf and Hogatec at one of the 40 international fairs of Messe Dusseldorf.

Not just a stronghold of the German advertising, fashion and financial industry, Dusseldorf has emerged as the top communications center in Germany. This position being evidenced by the presence of many foreign trading centers in the city like NTT, Ericsson and Nokia. Furthermore, the renowned filmmaking companies (such as Germany's biggest cinema enterprise the Riech-Group) and TV-channels like CNN and NBC have made the Dusseldorf a city of moving images.

Major Business Centers
Messe Dusseldorf GmbH:
A major player in the international trade fair arena, Messe Dusseldorf roughly occupies 252,000m2 of exhibition space, spread across 17 halls which serves as a platform for around 26,300 exhibitors from all over the world.

Serving more than 107 countries through its foreign representative offices, Messe Dusseldorf Organization has 40 International branches all over the world.

Dusseldorf Stock Exchange:
Dusseldorf stock exchange is one of the largest Stock exchanges of Germany and is of Germany to get certified by the TUV. Further with gepuften transparency, speed and reliability the Dusseldorf stock Exchange has set new standards.

Major Commercial Hubs
Graf-Adolf-Platz (Count Adolf Place):
Being one of the most important traffic junctions of Dusseldorf, Count Adolf is an important business district of the city. In former times also, it was the starting point for remote passenger traffic.

Further adding to its commercial value is the fact that it lies in vicinity of an important shopping and commercial center of the city i.e. ‘Konigsallee’. A new building ‘GAP 15’ as well as the former office for telegraph located here are also worth mentioning.

Seestern:
Home to several high-rise elegant important office buildings, Seestern is further emerging as a substantial commercial address of the city Dusseldorf. Lying in the vicinity of airport and ‘Konigsallee’, Seestern laps large number of banks, hotels and commercial offices of the city. A building like Cubus also adds to it’s worth.