Breda fifth strongest economy of the Netherlands

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The Toplocations 2011 survey by Elzevier magazine and Louter Bureau shows the City of Breda to be the fifth strongest economy of the Netherlands. The ranking has a total of three cities in Brabant in the top five.

What we know now is that Den Bosch, Zwolle and Houten are the municipalities with the strongest economies. Eindhoven comes up fourth and Breda fifth. Losing party is the Randstad, the winners are Noord-Brabant and the East of the country.

According to Elsevier’s website “It is the twelfth edition of the Top locations survey. Delft-based Louter Bureau, specialist in space economic research and advice, has collected a large amount of data.”

The economic achievements of municipalities have been assessed with the help of 40 indicators which include: the number and increase of the number of jobs, the contribution to the national economy, the diversity of economic activity, the level of education of the professional population, the supply of business sites, land emission and degree of occupation of office space.

Posted on 28-09-2011