Bremen Economic Development Agency

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WFB Economic Development Corporation Bremen GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding June 1, 2009
Seat Bremen , Germany
management Andreas Heyer
Number of employees 234 (2019)
sales EUR 28.8 million (2018)
Branch Economic development company
Website wfb-bremen.de

The WFB Bremen Economic Development is a company of the state of Bremen (92.27%), the city of Bremen (6.95%) and the city of Bremerhaven (0.78%). Your task is to develop, strengthen and market Bremen as a business, trade fair and event location. The WFB is based in the Kontorhaus am Markt , Langenstrasse 2-4, which is in the immediate vicinity of the Bremen market square . At the beginning of 2010 the "Unternehmensservice Bremen" was set up in the building behind the Schütting, the seat of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce , a joint information office of the WFB, the Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Crafts, the RKW and the BAB Bremer Aufbau-Bank GmbH.

history

First, Bremer Investitions-Gesellschaft mbH (BIG) was founded to make Bremen attractive to investors and, in this context, to offer support for companies looking for locations, commercial space , office and commercial real estate. But she also took on other tasks to strengthen Bremen as a business location. Starting in 2000, she developed a concept for the large residential complexes in Bremen threatened by foreclosure with a total of around 1500 residential units. On June 1, 2009, the Bremen Economic Development Corporation became the successor to BIG, with HVG Hanseatische Veranstaltungs-GmbH , Bremen Marketing GmbH and MGH Messe- und Expositiongesellschaft Hansa GmbH being brought together under one roof. WFB also took over all of the shares in Bremer Aufbau-Bank, which has been offering loans since 2001.

In 2011, the then Lord Mayor Jörg Schulz of Bremerhaven was on the supervisory board.

organization

According to its own statements, the WFB owns shares in the following companies: Bremer Aufbau-Bank GmbH (100%), Glocke Veranstaltungs-GmbH (100%), which is responsible for the concert hall Die Glocke , Bremer Weser-Stadion GmbH (50%), Musikfest Bremen GmbH (40%) and EVG elko Event and Building Service GmbH (20%). The companies that are wholly or majority owned by WFB also have their own managing directors ( A12-A14 ).

In 2010, the Bremer Aufbau-Bank had equity of around 137 million euros (2009: 110,833,000). In addition, she supports startups and IPOs. It in turn owns 100% of the BAB Beteiligungs- und Managementgesellschaft Bremen mbH and more than 35% of the Bürgschaftsbank Bremen GmbH , and finally a quarter of the Bremer Unternehmensbeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH . The construction bank is also located in the office building.

Andreas Heyer is the full-time managing director. The chairman of the supervisory board is Kristina Vogt, Senator for Economy, Labor and Europe.

At the federal level, the WFB is organized in the German Association of Economic Promotion and Development Companies.

In 2017, the shareholder aims to restructure WFB. The innovation department is to be separated and relocated to the Senator for Economics and the trade fair business is to be merged with the wholesale market.

job

In addition to the numerous investments in companies, the WFB deals with the networking of economic players and the marketing of Bremen. Marketing includes "Bremen and Bremerhaven bike it!" (Marketing of cycling), science marketing, cultural marketing, relaunch of the city portal bremen.de, the press service Bremen u. a. She finances u. a. and the architects collective of "interim headquarters Bremen," the city for temporary use organized temporarily vacant buildings.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Participation report of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 2009/2010. (PDF; 3.5 MB) The Senator for Finance, accessed on February 10, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Full office building - all shops rented from summer , in: Weser-Kurier , May 11, 2010.
  3. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: stadtumbauwest.info@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtumbauwest.info
  4. ↑ Aufbau-Bank gives more money than other institutes ( Memento from August 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), in: Weser-Kurier, July 28, 2009.
  5. ↑ Investments .
  6. ↑ A massive increase in funding for companies in Bremen is planned. Realignment of the Bremer Aufbau-Bank , in: Umweltruf, Europaticker Verlag, December 14, 2010.
  7. ↑ WFB Management ( Memento from February 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ https://www.wfb-bremen.de/sixcms/media.php/49/WFB_jahresbericht2019.pdf
  9. ↑ Weser-Kurier of April 27, 2016: Article of the Weser Kurier
  10. ^ WFB: The ZwischenZeitZentrale and the Überseestadt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 8, 2018 ; accessed on January 8, 2018 .