added: | 2011-07-07 11:54:59 The information about the city
Tarnowskie Góry takes up the area of 8,347 ha and has 60,639 inhabitants. The population density is 727 people per km2. Tarnowskie Góry is a city of centuries-old tradition. It was granted city charter in year 1526.
Tarnowskie Góry, as well as the Silesian Voivodship, is very well linked to the European transport network. The main pan-european routes ( Corridor III: Berlin-Wrocław-Katowice-Kraków-Lvov and Corridor VI: Gdańsk-Katowice-Žilina) intersect here.
The economy of Tarnowskie Góry
The economy of Tarnowskie Góry is not homogenous. The city, as well as all the region, is historically connected with heavy industry. The industry that has developed in Tarnowskie Góry has provided machines and devices for companies of mining, metallurgical and chemical branches. In the 90’s, by the side of big companies of construction, installation, paper, electronic, logistic, recycling and cloth industries. Trade and services are other significant branches of the economy of Tarnowskie Góry. Currently, micro, small and medium size companies make the predominant majority of the companies of Tarnowskie Góry economy. In mid 2007 there were 6977 business entities registered in the National Business Registry ( REGON) running their business in Tarnowskie Góry, including 5102 natural persons and 1875 legal persons and entities not having legal personality.
Business environment
All the sectors of business support services in Tarnowskie Góry are well developed. There are 19 bank divisions providing services for companies and private costumers. The financial sector is complemented by insurance and consulting companies. In Tarnowskie Góry there are several organizations which associate business entities.
Among them are: Tarnowskie Góry Chamber of Industry and Trade, The Free Sundry Crafts Guild, The Association of Tarnowskie Góry Traders, The Association of Trade and Services of Tarnowskie Góry.
Why is worth investing in Tarnowskie Góry:
- Convenient geographical location – it is located in the central part of Europe,
- Transport – the proximity of the airport and European transport corridors, one of the biggest marshalling yards in Europe, the neighbourhood of the euroterminal in Sławków (the system of standard and broad gauge railway) and the inland port in Gliwice linked with the Odra,
- Easy access to a huge consumer market – the number of people living within fifty-kilometer radius is 3.7 mln and wthin a hundred-kilometer radius is 9 mln
- Well educated and qualified workforce
For more information: www.tarnowskiegory.pl
