Nobel Prize Winners and Inventors from Hessen - invest-in-hessen

› Largest site of biotechnology
production in Germany
› Among the fi rst three leading German
media centers
› Chemical and pharmaceutical
site with a tradition reaching
back many decades
› World market leadership of many
Hessian companies
The Best of Hessen
The strongest motor of the Hessian
economy is the service sector.
About three-fourths of gross-added
value is generated by this sector –
more than in any other German state.
In the processing industry, Hessen,
with an export rate of 45 percent,
also plays a leading role in Germany.
Many of the exported products have
world-renowned brand names;
the attribute “Made in Hessen”
has always stood and still stands
for high quality, functionality, and
reliability. And that applies not only
to large companies, but also to
the small and midsized companies
which successfully serve the world
market from here.
DID YOU KNOW …
› that the world famous “snow
globes” with their enchanting
whirling snowfl akes were invented
in 1950 by the Hessian company
Koziol?
› that Koziol still manufactures
this evergreen – shown above:
the original motif of the fi rst snow
globe – in Hessen?
› that three panels with Koziol
miniatures from 1950 sold at
Sotheby’s auction house in 2001
for the record sum of more than
16.7 million euros?
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