West Frankfurt, urban district of Rebstock - whoever owns a plot of land here can count himself lucky. Prices per square metre of several thousand Euro are perfectly normal. So how is it that an area as big as 27 hectares is only used as a car park? The reason is a domestic waste dump established in the 1950's. More ...

The manufacturing plants of Haarmann & Reimer, a producer of fragrances and essences in Nördlingen, are bursting at the seams. Building something new and moving seems imminent. Then in 1995 the decision is taken: to move the whole site to an industrial area in the southeast of the city. On an area of more than 3 hectares ...

When a business enterprise as big as the Berliner Wasserbetriebe is to be partly privatised, a lot of questions arise that have to be answered. After all, it is one of the biggest companies in the field of water management and sewage water disposal in Germany. A syndicate intends to purchase a stake of 49,9 per cent. And this syndicate - made up of the French conglomerate Vivendi, RWE and the Allianz - does not want to buy a pig in a poke ...