Not only its geographical position and transport infrastructure are ideal. Hamm is also an economic location which offers a large number of additional advantages. Investors will find a diverse and economically priced range of ideally situated commercial properties, and companies wishing to settle in Hamm will receive fast and efficient support.
Hamm’s service package includes competent support for new companies, with clearly defined competences, fast approval procedures and personnel services.
Start-up businesses benefit from tailor-made start-up initiatives, support programmes and competent advisory services. Businesses in Hamm value the city’s balanced mix of industries and large number of companies, which support synergy effects, business contacts and cooperations. With its great potential of highly skilled and motivated employees, Hamm offers a wide range of development opportunities for professional services.

More than 30 companies from the logistics and forwarding sectors have already settled in Hamm, their range including classic haulage businesses, highly specialised transport companies and global distribution centres for agricultural machinery, such as the Claas and Stute CS Parts Logistics Center.
An increasing number of food logistics companies has discovered Hamm’s locational advantages, such as Plus, Edeka, METRO and trinkgut, who have launched their new supraregional logistics centres in Hamm.
A large number of new jobs have been created in these sectors in recent years, an additional 6,000 to 7,000 being added with the launch of the development of the intermunicipal industrial and commercial estate in Hamm-Bönen (Inlogparc).

A great potential of highly skilled employees plays an important role in logisticians’ locational decisions, which is why Hamm’s business development agency offers companies wishing to settle in Hamm a comprehensive package that ranges from highly skilled support for new companies to personnel services which train the required staff even before the company moves to Hamm.
A number of further education facilities, such as the Friedrich List vocational college, also offer specialised qualifications in the logistics sector. The recently launched SRH Fachhochschule Hamm university of applied sciences leads the way in the German higher education landscape, offering a face-to-face as well as a distance learning logistics course. Another convincing argument in favour of the INLOGPARC!

As a health industry centre, Hamm also has a lot to offer in the training sector, such as the Vocational Training Institute and the Elisabeth Lüders Vocational College, which offer a number of courses in the social and health sectors.
The Clinic for Manual Therapy also features a training institute, the Gottfried Gutmann Academy, where up to 1,800 medical practitioners and physiotherapists per year undergo advanced education and further training.
Companies specialising in technical medicine - for example in Hamm’s technology and start-up centre, HAMTEC - also offer great opportunities for businesses.
The city of Hamm will continue to consistently and intensively expand and strengthen Hamm as a health centre, and in addition to decentralised facilities in all districts, a concentration of services in Hamm’s East will be intensified.
The new Bad Hamm health centre includes the newly-built therapy centre, the new senior citizens’ residence near the Ostenallee, the new ‘Maximare Erlebnistherme Bad Hamm’ spa, and the ‘reha bad hamm’ facility, which complement the range of health facilities in Hamm, from diagnostics and therapy to an extensive range of services in the outpatient rehabilitation sector.

The great potential of Hamm as a health industry location is mainly based on its diverse interdisciplinary range of services. There are few towns in the eastern Ruhr district which offer such a dense concentration of top-quality services in the health sector.

The wide range of education facilities in Hamm offer qualification programmes that specialise in future-oriented professions and innovative sectors, among them the SRH University of Applied Sciences Hamm, which was launched on 22 November 2005. The SRH University of Applied Sciences offers bachelor courses, master courses in logistics management, industrial engineering in the power sector and facility management. With the Bachelor of Sciences in dental technology also the public health sector is included in the curriculum of the university.

In addition to the SRH University of Applied Sciences, the private Hamm Business School offers a blended-learning course in business management with face-to-face sessions in Hamm since October 2004. For a number of years, there has also been the option of blended-learning courses provided by a cooperation initiative launched by Hamm companies and the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences.
The FernuniversitätHagen also operates a study centre in Hamm featuring ‘classic’ distance learning courses.
The Rhine-Ruhr region has one of Europe’s densest higher education networks, and the universities in Dortmund, Bochum, Essen and Paderborn can be reached within a 45 minute drive.

Alongside these courses, Hamm features all types of schools, from the Waldorf school to a distance learning university. Next to classic schools (28 primary, 22 secondary schools, seven special schools, five secondary modern schools, five grammar schools, two comprehensive schools and three vocational colleges and a further education college), there is a wide range of further education, qualification and retraining facilities.