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

Call Centers
Signifi cance: over 30,000 employees
Special feature: prominent service sector
in Hessen for mail-order businesses,
fi nancial service providers, market
research, airlines, and customer service
organizations
Media Business
Signifi cance: almost 5,500 companies with
over 80,000 employees
Renowned companies such as: AP, Bloomberg
TV, CNN, Dow Jones, FAZ, Hessischer
Rundfunk, McGraw-Hill, RheinMain TV,
S. Fischer Verlag, Suhrkamp Verlag, The
Wallstreet Journal, Twentieth Century Fox;
one-third of the highest-sales advertising
agencies in Germany
Special feature: Frankfurt is the Mecca
of digital fi lm and postproduction in Europe
and the site of the most important European
festival for fi lm production and visual
effects – edit/VES.
Biotechnology
Signifi cance: largest biotechnology site in Germany with about
15,000 employees
Special feature: intimate collaboration with the Frankfurt
Innovation Center for Biotechnology (FIZ) – the platform for new,
cost-reduction concepts
Telecommunications Services
Signifi cance: more than 230 companies in the Rhine-Main region.
Renowned companies such as: Arcor, BT Ignite, Colt, Deutsche
Telekom, Motorola
Special feature: eleven independent fi ber-optic cable networks
in Frankfurt – unparalleled anywhere in the world; third-largest
Internet node in Europe
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