You need the right feel for a particular market coupled with a lot of know-how and experience: the experts of EFG Elbe Fetthandel Co. Ltd.

The enterprise specializes in worldwide trade in vegetable and animal oils, plus their derivatives from the oleo-chemical industry. The animal feed and food industry are the main customers but also processing companies in the cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, automobile, nutrient and paper industries.

EFG is classed as one of the leading companies and has been operating in the alternative energy field for only one year: bio diesel, vegetable oil for thermal power stations and truck-engines. The commercial operation founded in Hamburg in 2000 moved in 2006 to a new architecturally impressive building in Geesthacht. For EFG Elbe Fetthandel there were good reasons to choose this location.

Managing director Andreas Walther: "Hamburg is near - and Hamburg is one of the important European commercial centres." But here in Geesthacht the business rates are lower than in the metropolitan area. Furthermore there was a subsidy for the building. And for the employees of the region, the accessibility to employment is really good.