Business

There are plenty of reasons to choose Odense as the place to run your business.

Odense has passed an ambitious industrial policy with the goal of placing Odense in the top three over the most prosperous urban areas in Denmark before 2017. Our efforts to reach this goal will make Odense an even better city to live – both for companies as well as for children, youngsters and adults.

However, already at this point Odense is a very business friendly city. As a newly established company or as potential newcomer, you are able to make use of Erhvervskontakten – The Business Contact – which will serve all of your needs for information and help for establishment. Erhvervskontakten helps both new as well as established companies with reviews and authority approvals. In this way, all necessary information is gathered in one place.

Odense and Funen are situated in the heart of Denmark as a centre in traffic between the European continent and the rest of Scandinavia. We have attractive sites ready for development, i.e. in Tietgenbyen right next to the motorway. Through good collaboration with the business intermediaries, we also help you finding rentable business facilities.

Besides offering help with establishment and reviews, Odense also offers a broad spectrum of counselling to help each company in its continuing development. We offer specialised counselling e.g. in sales, financing, or professional boards – and in most cases counselling is offered for free. Are you looking for other business people to discuss the challenges of your company with, we offer you a seat in one of our networks for managing directors or functional managers.

If you are looking for employees, there are good opportunities of finding them in Odense. University of Southern Denmark and the rest of the educational institutions in the city consolidate a well-educated workforce for the companies in the areas. Odense furthermore has tradition of strong working alliances between the university and the businesses.

Odense and Funen have very competent business clusters which are being further developed; i.e. welfare technology, energy technology, e-business and robot technology. Odense is the leading robot city in Denmark.

Odense also works with business development; especially businesses which are crucial to the future development of welfare at Funen i.e. food, iron and metal, gardening and retailing.

For further information about what Odense offers its businesses:

www.odense.dk/erhvervskontakten

www.udviklingodense.dk