Cooperative DZ Bank
Survey: Mittelstand remains loyal to the location of Germany
Medium -sized companies express a lot of criticism, but still want to remain true to their German locations.
In the German middle class, only a few companies have concrete emigration plans. In a survey by the cooperative DZ Bank, only every 20th company said to think about relocating the headquarters abroad. For 8 percent, the relocation of individual locations is eligible, while “13 percent” could imagine moving individual departments to the cheaper.
The bottom line is that the German medium-sized businesses remain home despite all the location problems, the institute reported from the Association of Volks and Raiffeisen banks. In principle, almost 80 percent of the companies surveyed could not imagine leaving Germany as a company location in whole or in part.
But above all larger companies from energy -intensive industries such as chemistry, however, check alternatives. In addition to high costs, bureaucracy and lack of digitization would be seen as problematic.
More than 1,000 owners and managing directors of medium -sized German companies took part in the representative survey. The data was collected from September 11 to October 10, 2024 via telephone and online interviews.
dpa
Source: Stern
