Establishing a company

With its ideal location in Greater Copenhagen, high-technology companies and a highly educated workforce, Rudersdal is definitely worth considering.

Copenhagen Capacity has listed 10 good reasons for investing in Greater Copenhagen.

Rudersdal fulfils them all.

1. Europe's easiest place for doing business

The World Bank ranked Denmark the easiest place to do business in Europe in 2012–2019.

2. Low company tax

Denmark’s corporate income tax rate is 22%, which is below the average OECD and European level.

3. Europe's most flexible labour market

Greater Copenhagen offers the most flexible hiring and firing legislation in Europe, providing ideal conditions for up-scaling and down-scaling.

4. Competitive business costs

Danish social security rates and employer costs are the lowest in Europe. Copenhagen is 15–20% cheaper than Stockholm for the total costs of a business operation such as a Scandinavian headquarters or shared services centre, including salary, social security costs and office rent.

5. Scandinavia's talent hub

Greater Copenhagen has Scandinavia’s largest recruitment base of highly skilled employees and Scandinavia’s largest pool of private and public sector researchers.

6. The logistics capital of Scandinavia

Copenhagen links continental Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, providing access to a market of 100 million consumers, and has Scandinavia’s highest density of businesses and population. Copenhagen Airport was declared the best airport in northern Europe at the World Airport Awards 2015 and has the most intercontinental, European, Scandinavian and Baltic connections of any Scandinavian airport.

7. Easy interaction with public authorities

Denmark consistently achieves top rankings in Transparency International’s study of perceived corruption in the public sector worldwide. Denmark’s public sector is known for its low level of bureaucracy and red tape and for easy interaction with public authorities.

8. The world's most liveable city

Copenhagen received the World’s Most Liveable City Award in 2013 and 2014 from the international magazine Monocle.

9. Highest concentration of knowledge

With 12,000 researchers, 15 science parks and 14 universities and other colleges of higher education with top rankings for university–industry cooperation, Greater Copenhagen offers Scandinavia’s most knowledge-rich research and business environment.

10. Best for tests and demonstrations

Denmark is known worldwide for its high-quality, groundbreaking research and development and is valued as a leading test market for ICT, cleantech, smart grid and smart city solutions.

Source: Copenhagen Capacity

As an investor from abroad, you can get help to find the ideal location to establish a subsidiary, a research unit or a Nordic headquarters.

Copenhagen Capacity provides information about establishing a company in Greater Copenhagen, investment opportunities, building plots, recruitment and much more.

Copenhagen Capacity

Øresunddirektbusiness is your access point for information about running a company in Greater Copenhagen. The website provides information on recruiting staff, on establishing a company and on doing business in Sweden across the Öresund.

Øresunddirektbusiness is a portal with information in Danish on the business environment in Sweden and information in Swedish about the corresponding Danish environment.

Øresunddirektbusiness

(information currently only in Danish and Swedish)

Rudersdal’s business coordinator can help your company find the best location and facilitate contacts with our business partners in the region.

You can contact Rudersdal’s business coordinator by e-mail at erhverv@rudersdal.dk.