Headquarters

Choosing Denmark makes sound financial sense

Looking for the ideal location for your regional headquarter?
Looking for a location with the world’s best business environment?
Looking for highly skilled and motivated employees?

Have a look at Denmark!

Why Denmark?

• World's best place to conduct business in a five year perspective (EIU 2007 & 2008)
• Good availability of qualified and motivated staff with strong foreign language skills
• Highest labour market flexibility in Europe (IMD 2007)
• Competitive total labour costs
• Easy international and regional accessibility
• The most efficient airport in Europe (ACI 2007)
• Low office rental rates (CB Richard Ellis 2008)
• Attractive expatriate regulations
• High quality of life (Mercer HR 2007)
• Highest e-readiness in the world (EIU 2008)
  

Denmark is the world’s top investment country
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, Denmark is the world’s most advantageous country to locate a business seen from a five year investment perspective. Contributing to Denmark’s top score is the flexibility of the Danish labour market, the highly educated workforce and the transparency of framework for conducting business. Furthermore, Denmark has a well-developed infrastructure making Denmark a European junction from where it is easy to transport goods to the rest of the
Nordic and Baltic region as well as the entire European mainland.

Denmark’s attractiveness as a location for headquarter activities
is underlined in a benchmark study illustrated below.

Business Solution: Northern European Headquarter
Number of employees: 50

• General Management (2 employees)
• Finance (5 employees)
• Marketing (9 employees)
• Sales (21 employees)
• HR (3 employees)
• IT (3 employees)
• Administration (7 employees)
  

Factors included in the benchmark

Cost factors:

• Total employment costs
• Office costs
  

Qualitative factors:

• General Business Environment
• Human resources
• Flexibility of labour and regulations
• Infrastructure & Communications
• Living Environment / Attractiveness to international staff
  
  

Invest in Denmark's Benchmarking Service
Invest in Denmark offers a comprehensive benchmarking service covering a range of sector interests.
Using a quality-cost matrix this tool allows objective comparison of Denmark with up to 35 different global locations. All the data programmed into the tool is kept constantly up to date and fully referenced.
Besides being fast, our benchmarking service is also free. If you have reached a point in your investment planning where benchmarking Denmark could be a useful next step, please contact us for an initial meeting.