Currency – Euro (EUR)
Language – German (official), widespread use of Turkish, Italian, Greek, English, Danish, Dutch, Slavic languages
Capital – Berlin (3.382 mil)
Business Centers – Hamburg (1.715 mil), Munich (1.21 mil), Cologne (.963 mil), Frankfurt/Main (.647 mil)
GDP - $2.73 trillion ($30,400 per capita)
Key Industries/Market Segments – Iron, Steel, Coal, Cement, Chemicals, Machinery, Vehicles, Machine Tools, Electronics, Food and Beverages, Ship Building
ECP Global’s partners – public relations, investor relations and public affairs firms – together represent a broad array of practice areas and competencies.
Our skills and marketplace/industry experience help us to form strong, long-term partnerships with companies, institutions, governmental entities, non-profit organizations/non-governmental organizations and industry and professional associations.
We provide strategic communication, public relations and public affairs counsel and effective, pragmatic, national and pan-national outcomes to meet client objectives.
ECP Global’s key organizational capabilities include:
- Advertising, direct marketing, marketing collateral, interactive/web services and package design
- Branding and corporate identify
- Crisis, insolvency and risk/issue communications
- Corporate communications
- Corporate environmental and quality programs
- Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
- Economic development
- Employee and internal communications
- International affairs
- Investor relations and financial communications
- Marketing communications – business to business and consumer
- Media relations
- Media and presentation training
- Mergers and acquisitions communications
- Public affairs, lobbying and political campaigns – EU relations, WTO & WHO monitoring
- Special events and sponsorship/partnership management
- Trade show and exhibition management
- Web-based communication and marketing
Our members’ sector strengths include:
- Automotive
- Biotech and pharmaceuticals
- Business process outsourcing
- Chemicals
- Consumer electronics
- Consumer products
- Defense
- Energy/utilities
- Engineering
- Environmental affairs
- Financial services
- Food and consumer packaged goods
- Healthcare
- Home building
- Industrial
- IT: telecom/wireless, online/e-commerce, software & hardware
- Leisure and entertainment
- Luxury products
- Management and consulting
- Mining
- Non-profits and Non-governmental organizations
- Professional services
- Real estate
- Retail and distribution
- Sports
- Textiles and interior design
- Tire industry
- Tobacco
- Travel and tourism
- Venture capital
- Wine and spirits