The Hanseatic City of Stralsund, ennobled as UNESCO world heritage, is a highlight in northern Germany through its history, the unique situation by the sea and the enormous number of historical buildings. Its modern touristic infrastructure meets all the wishes and demands of travelling groups and individual tourists. As a business location, Stralsund is characterized by the three Ts - tradition, tourism and technology. Growing numbers of innovative service and high-tech companies are setting up in the wake of long-established firms. One of Stralsund’s areas of core competence is the maritime economy, first and foremost the Volkswerft shipyard and the commercial port. Other core business sectors are tourism, the education sector, services and craft trades. Stralsund is the biggest city in Western Pomerania, located on the Sound of Strela at the southern end of the Baltic Sea.

As such, it offers superb conditions for setting up new business ventures. As a regional centre Stralsund has much to offer its investors: a good location, easy accessibility, low-cost industrial sites with all services, ever-improving infrastructure, a highly skilled labour force, low prices for electricity, heating and water, attractive funding opportunities for new businesses, synergy effects through the practically oriented scientific potential of the local University of Applied Sciences, pleasant living conditions, a rich cultural landscape, and last but not least, a wide range of leisure and recreation facilities in one of Germany’s most beautiful holiday regions. In the Stralsund Innovation and Startup Centre (SIG) entrepreneurs interested in starting a company have complete freedom to develop new ideas and products right through to market launch. Plenty of reasons to do business in Stralsund. Stralsund is worth a visit.