Business
- Over 1500 international companies are located in the Amsterdam area.
- Dutch multinationals: Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever, Corus, ING Group, Fortis, ABN-Amro, Aegon, Philips, Royal KPN, Heineken, Grolsch, AHOLD.
- The Randstad region (includes the cities Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague) is the fourth largest economic urban region in the European Union.
- The Port of Rotterdam is one of the best international seaports in the world and is situated within a 60km radius from Schiphol.
- The Netherlands ranks 5 in the world for investing in foreign countries and also rank 5 in the world for incoming foreign investments.
- Amsterdam ranks 9 in the world for most popular city to organise a congress.
Leisure
- Centre of Amsterdam only twenty minutes away by train
- Attractive and compact tourist destination (in 2007: 10,1 million inbound passengers)
- Country with a rich history, culture and spirit of commerce
- Dutch people who made a difference: Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt van Rijn, Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Anthony "The Flying Dutchman" Fokker, Anne Frank, DJ Tiësto, Johan Cruijf, Anton Philips
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