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The Lord Mayor of City of Cologne, Germany, Jürgen Roters, leading a high ranking business and science delegation, recently visited Bangalore along with a team from Cologne’s Economic Development office, in order to promote the business and trade fair location of Cologne, to strengthen administrative relations to Indian government departments and to improve scientific contacts. Mr. Enrico Ruhle, Managing Director of the Bangalore based German company TUV Rheinland India was also one of the members of the delegation.
Prior to Bangalore the delegation had visited New Delhi and Mumbai for interactions with trade and Government to position Cologne as an ideal business destination in Europe for Indian companies.
Mayor Jürgen Roters heads up the City of Cologne’s administration with some 17,000 employees, presides over the city council, is the top-ranking representative of Cologne and the first point of contact for business, culture and politics, both nationally and internationally.
The Cologne-India initiative, which was launched in 2006, has seen quite a few Indian businesses setting up shop in Cologne, since the launch of the initiative. Some of the major investors who have set up shop in Cologne include IT services firms like Wipro Technologies, which has its German headquarters in Cologne; MindTree Ltd, which relocated its German and European headquarters from Frankfurt am Main to the cathedral city. Today, around 50 companies with an Indian background are based in Cologne.
Mayor of Cologne Jürgen Roter, also chairman of the Supervisory Board of Koelnmesse, an organiser of fairs, and Koelnmesse chief Gerald Böse spent time in Bangalore to promote the trade fair location of Cologne and to attract new trade fair participants and reach potential investors especially in the areas of IT/BT.
Jurgen Roters, along with his delegation paid a visit to the German Testing, Inspection and Certification Body, TUV Rheinland (India) Pvt Ltd at Bangalore. The delegation visited the company’s Photovoltaic Laboratory, the EMC Laboratory and their Office at Electronic City. The President of Electronic City Industries Association(ELCIA), Mr Babu Rangaswamy also participated and presented the activities of ELCIA to the delegation. Ms Audrey DSouza, of the Indian German Chamber of Commerce also presented the activities of IGCC. The delegation later visited WIPRO, ITC Info Tech and wound up the visit with a meeting with NASSCOM.
