The Volkswagen Group has aligned its company strategy to fully commit to electric mobility. Over the next nine years up to 75 new pure electric models will be introduced together with around 60 hybrid vehicles. All in all Volkswagen plans to sell 26 million electric vehicles by 2029. To achieve this target, the company management in Wolfsburg has earmarked roughly 33 billion euros for an enormous investment program to catapult the world's largest car producer, and, at the same time Germany's largest industrial group, into a leading position in the electric mobility market.

On October 5, 2017, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new facility for the Holsten brewery im Heykenaukamp 13 (Hamburg-Hausbruch) was performed by Sebastian Holtz (CEO Carlsberg Germany), Iain Gow (Vice President Western Europe of the Carlsberg Group), and none other than Olaf Scholz, who was then the Lord Mayor of the city of Hamburg. In view of the historic importance and ambition of the project, the presence of these high level guests was not a surprise. 

There were omnibuses in Berlin as early as 1847. However, in those days they were drawn by horses. A lot has happened since then. After 1905 the horse-drawn omnibuses were slowly replaced by motor-driven buses and in 1929 the first buses drove through the city with the BVG name. As a sort of birthday present (90 years of BVG), the BVG will now receive a complete new fleet of double deckers.

The Siemens Group has high ambitions for offshore wind power. At the Cuxhaven location since 2017 there have been plans to build nacelles with a length of approx. 15 m and a diameter of approx. 6.5 m with a weight of 200 tonnes (so-called D7 platform) for offshore wind turbines. In the summer 2016 a working group was commissioned to construct a production hall including all auxiliary buildings.

The location of Húsavík (»cove with houses«) with its 2,200 inhabitants may only be known to some Iceland insiders in Germany. Yet now, one of the most modern and environmentally‑friendly silicon metal production plants in the world has been built at this picturesque fishing town, with legal support from Leinemann Partner.