WFG - the Economic Development Corporation for the County of Heinsberg - was founded in 1979 as a non-profit organisation devoted to strengthening the region’s existing economic structure and realising its untapped potential.
Today, WFG sees itself as a service provider with close links to the economy and offers objective, confidential and usually free help in the following range of services:
- Support of companies seeking business premises and support with comparative location analyses
- Advice and backing for companies planning to settle in the county
- Services to promote the development of companies based in the county
- Advice and assistance in finding successors to preserve the level of occupancy in the county
- Support for start-up firms preparing to succeed as entrepreneurs
- Assistance from the GSZH Business Founders’ and Service Centre in Hückelhoven
- Initiation and backing of key projects in the economy-linked infrastructure
- Support for the towns and municipalities in their economic development work
- Monitoring of economic development in the county
As is customary in modern economic development, these tasks are performed to various degrees of detail and frequently in close collaboration with regional partners and networks.
