Province of North Brabant

General Information

Brabant is located in the southern Netherlands, bordering Belgium. It is an highly industrialized region and one of the most knowledge intensive areas in Europe. 

Key industries/ regional strengths

R&D, Manufacturing, logistics & sales in IT, Farma, Medtech, Chemicals, Automotive, Solar and Food. 

Foreign companies

Brabant accommodates over 1,100 foreign companies (employing 90,000 workers), including Exxon, GE, Sabic, Siemens, IBM, Samsung, Amgen, LG, Texas Instruments, Bosch, Acer, FujiFilm, Sony, Panasonic, BASF, Tyco Electronics, Advantech, Citigroup, Abbott, Norco, Ardagh and TCS. 

Accessibility

Brabant is centrally situated between Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, the port of Rotterdam and Antwerp, and the major German economic core region of the Rhine Ruhr. Eindhoven Airport supplements Brabant’s excellent accessibility with connections to over 20 major European destinations. 

Special Attention

• Home to Dutch multinationals like Philips, ASML, NXP, Bavaria, Interpolis, CZ and VDL
• Brabant accounts for > 30% of Dutch manufacturing industry in the Netherlands *
• Brabant accounts for > 50% of Company R&D spending in the Netherlands *
• High Tech Campus Eindhoven: 90 high tech companies employing 8,000 engineers
• Presence of University of Tilburg, Technical University and The Design Academy (both Eindhoven)
• West-Brabant: Logistics hotspot in the Netherlands (Reed Business Elsevier)
• “Best in Class” is celebrated by establishment of Dutch Advanced Logistics Institute in Breda

  * CBS/Statistics Netherlands