Best Federal State for Companies: Bavaria No Longer the Leader
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In the current location ranking for companies, another federal state is ahead of Bavaria. Three West German federal states occupy the last places.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder is cheering the Germans for more performance. Just stupid: his federal state is in the back of his workload – even behind Berlin.
Saxony wants to enforce new levers against money laundering through the Federal Council. Neighboring Thuringia joins the idea. Out of painful experience, as an Erfurt example shows. Will the Länderkammer follow the advance?
Stiftung Familienunternehmen und ZEW present new leader list Mannheim/Dresden, 29 January 2026. Saxony is the most attractive business location for companies in Germany. This is the result of a study by the Mannheim Institute of Economic Research "ZEW" according to a survey among family companies. Accordingly, Saxony has now also overtaken Bavaria in terms of human capital, financing possibilities for investments, infrastructure and other indica…
MUNICH. According to a new study by the Mannheim-based economic research institute ZEW Bayern, Saxony has trumped as the most attractive federal state for companies. The economists see Saxony as well positioned in particular with regard to the factors "work and human capital", "financing" and "infrastructure". Bavaria was ranked first in the first edition of the study in 2022, but according to the [...]
In federal comparison of economic attractiveness in the past, Bavaria was often ahead, the West ahead of the East. But this has changed.
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