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Cologne Business Guide
Trading Location with a World Ranking
Socio-economic data
Purchasing power per capita, EUR 20,714
Purchasing power index per inhabitant, Cologne 108.6
Turnover per inhabitant, Cologne 136.2
Centralized Retail Trade, Cologne 123.7
Net monthly cold ground-floor rents
(in EUR per m 2 of floor space)
– Shop premises in 1a locations (Hohe Str.) 135 – 250
– Shop premises in 1b locations 60 – 100
– Shop premises in urban districts 12 – 35
Contacts/Informations
KölnKongress GmbH
www.koelnkongress.de
Koelnmesse GmbH
www.koelnmesse.de
Retail Trade and Service Association
www.ehvkoeln.de
Gfk Group (Market research institute)
www.gfk.de
Firmenhandbuch (Companies in Cologne)
www.firmenhandbuch.de
Branchenführer Köln (Companies in Cologne)
www.koeln.de
Advertisements online portal of regional dailies
www.kalaydo.de
As early as Roman times, the location of Cologne on the banks of
the Rhine and at the junction of major trade routes, favoured the
exchange of goods. It was followed by the era of the Hanseatic cities
and today around 75,000 jobs exist in Cologne’s wholesale and
retail trades. There are also thousands of selfemployed businessmen
and -women. With Kaufhof AG and the Rewe Group, two of
the leading international trade groups are based in Cologne. The
names of further renowned companies are linked with Cologne:
For example, Saturn, the top address in the area of entertainment
electronics, offers the widest range of CDs in the world, and with
Globetrotter, the largest outdoor specialist retailer in Germany is
based in Cologne. German headquarters and distribution centres
of large international companies like Barilla Wasa, Bull, JT International,
Pernod Ricard or Toys “R” Us, have also decided to locate in
the commercial centre of Cologne.
The Koelnmesse is the trademark for the classical trading functions
in Cologne. The Koelmesse Group organizes around 70
international trade fairs, among them world fairs like photokina
and ANUGA, the International Hardware Fair Practical World, Asia-
Pacific-Sourcing, the International Furniture Fair imm cologne, the
ART COLOGNE or really new, the European pilot fair of the computer
games business Games Com. The Cologne fairs present approx.
90 percent of the exportable world production of goods and attract
around two million buyers from all over the world. Thanks to
its central location opposite the Cathedral, its new exhibition halls
and the ICE station KölnMesse/Deutz, Koelnmesse has developed
into one of the world’s most attractive exhibition centres.
No. 1 shopping street is the Schildergasse in the heart of the city.
It is the most heavily-frequented shopping street in Europe with
17,200 pedestrians per hour and numerous retailers make use of it
– or the neighbouring Hohe Strasse – as a test market for their engagement
in Germany. The Weltstadthaus, built according to the
plans of Renzo Piano for Peek and Cloppenburg, is a further centre
of attraction in the city with its imposing glass facade. Shopping
indoors is also possible in Cologne’s numerous shopping malls.
The Opern-Passagen and the DuMont-Carré invite shoppers with
an interesting mix of stores and restaurants and the Köln Arcaden
enrich Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine.
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