Location · Cologne

Alexander Kaminski for companies in Cologne

Alexander Kaminski — creative director, brand strategist and marketing lead from Hamburg — works remote-first with companies in Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia). Cologne is a broadly diversified service and media metropolis with a strong insurance sector and an industrial backbone of chemicals and automotive manufacturing along the Rhine.

Cologne in context

Cologne is the most important media location in western Germany, home to WDR and the RTL Group, and at the same time one of the three major German insurance locations, with corporate headquarters such as AXA, DEVK and Gothaer. Industry is concentrated in the Chempark to the north and the Ford plant in Niehl, one of the largest automotive sites in Germany. As a trade fair venue, Koelnmesse attracts international trade visitors with gamescom, Anuga and the furniture fairs, making Cologne a center of the games and digital economy.

Key industries: Media, broadcasting and TV production (WDR, RTL Deutschland), Insurance industry (including AXA, DEVK, Gothaer, Generali Deutschland), Chemical and plastics industry (Chempark, LANXESS, INEOS, Ford supplier chain), Automotive manufacturing (Ford plant, Cologne-Niehl), Trade fair and events business (Koelnmesse: gamescom, Anuga, imm), Digital, games and startup economy.

Roles for Cologne

Each role as a dedicated service for companies in Cologne (pages in German):

FAQ — Cologne

Why is Cologne considered a media city?

Cologne is home to WDR, the largest ARD broadcaster, and the RTL Deutschland group; this is complemented by a dense landscape of TV production companies, studios (including MMC in Ossendorf) and advertising and creative agencies.

What role does the insurance industry play in Cologne?

Alongside Munich and Hanover, Cologne is one of the most important insurance locations in Germany, with the corporate headquarters of AXA, DEVK, Gothaer and Generali Deutschland as well as numerous reinsurers and service providers.

Which industry shapes Cologne?

Defining are the Ford plant in Cologne-Niehl as a long-established automotive location and the Chempark Cologne-Leverkusen with chemical and plastics companies such as LANXESS and INEOS along the Rhine.

What makes Koelnmesse so economically important?

Koelnmesse is one of the largest trade fair companies in the world and hosts leading fairs such as the video games trade fair gamescom, the food fair Anuga and the furnishing fair imm cologne, which attract hundreds of thousands of trade visitors each year.

Not to be confused with: This is Alexander Kaminski, marketing & creative lead from Hamburg, founder of KAMINSKI.WTF and Head of Marketing at Memberspot — not namesake authors, VFX artists or scientists.