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March, 2005 Newsletter

Basel Area Unlimited

Welcome to Basel

Basel is Switzerland's third largest city. It is also a highly cosmopolitan city: not just as the centre of
an agglomeration of 700,000 people living in three countries (Switzerland, Germany, France), but also
as home to citizens of some 150 nations. Moreover, Basel is characterized by a very high density of internationally-active corporations; these spread Basel's name throughout the world.

As a large number of world's companies have their headquarters in Basel, the city also attracts highly-skilled specialists and their families from the widest possible variety of countries.

Basel named 'European City of the Future'

The magazine Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) published by the Financial Times has named Basel "European City of the Future – Switzerland 2004/2005". With this award fDi and the jury, made up of leading experts in the field of business consultancy, acknowledge the successes and efforts to develop the region.

As being a world's banking, logistics and pharmaceutical center, Basel won this award in competition with more than 140 other regions and now ranks ahead of Geneva and Zurich.

Business success

Business success relies on the goods, which are produced getting from manufacturer to consumer efficiently and undamaged. Transport and logistics are thus essential prerequisites for the prosperity of a business region.

Precisely in the pharmaceutical industry (the primary Basel's industry), where the rapid supply of medicines can save lives and where very exacting demands are made with regard to the production and delivery
of goods, logistics plays a key role in the success of a company. It therefore comes as no surprise that the Basel region is also Swiss champion in this sector.

International transport links

The major European railway lines meet in Basel. The city has three railway stations, directly linked with one another; apart from the Swiss SBB railway station, it also has a Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) railway station, serving Germany, and an SNCF station, serving the French national railways. High-speed lines from Germany (ICE) and France (TGV) thus reach via Switzerland's dense rail network to Italy and Austria.

The German North-South motorway A5 connects seamlessly with the Swiss motorway system in Basel and leads directly to the south of Italy. The French motorway A35, too, joins the Swiss (and German) motor-ways here.

The EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg offers regular daily flights to all important European centers. It is used by numerous international airlines and is the headquarters and home airport of the national airline SWISS.

The Basel region has by far the greatest freight traffic in the whole of Switzerland, whether for imports or exports. Bulk goods and parcel goods are shipped up the Rhine from North Sea ports to the Basel Rhine ports, which offer efficient trans-shipment facilities (container terminal, tank farms, bulk silos, and extensive storage facilities, as well as direct access to rail and road).

Most attractive business location in Switzerland

The above achievements in goods carriage and logistics, combined with well-trained human resources, make Basel area an attractive location for investments and setting up companies.

MB GROUP provides personalized assistance in obtaining authorizations you might need to incorporate your company in Switzerland, and serving as your contact agent for the local government structures.

We are here to help you succeed in Switzerland. You can benefit from our experience in setting up foreign businesses and from having to deal with only one representative throughout the entire procedure.

Want to establish a company in Basel?

Switzerland at a glance

Located in central Europe,
Switzerland is bordered by
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein,
Italy, and France. A small
country, Switzerland's name
conjures up images of chocolate,
cheese, watches, banks, and
snow-capped mountains.

Switzerland has always been a
magnet for international capital
due to its neutrality, favorable
fiscal environment, legendary
banking secrecy & geographical
position at the heart of Europe.

Switzerland's strategic location,
combined with the superb
business and logistics
infrastructure, provides your
business with a regional reach
that is beyond imagination.

Forms of tax-privileged
treatment in Switzerland

Holding company:
joint stock company, whose effective activity is to acquire financial participations (share-
holding) in other companies, primarily abroad
Domiciliary company:
joint stock company, which is economically dependent on another country and pursue
its business primarily abroad
Mixed company:
joint stock company that has the characteristics of both domiciliary and holding companies
Service company:
joint stock company, whose sole activity is the provision
of technical, financial and administrative assistance to affiliated foreign companies

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