“Having the world’s highest density of successful life sciences companies with their extremely dynamic growth based in the Basel region generates huge demand and allows us to offer an attractive range of flights from Basel and Zurich. The number of well-qualified, multilingual personnel in the region also means that, together with the Lufthansa Group, we can offer jobs at the EuroAirport for a lot of people.”
Harry Hohmeister
CEO SWISS
Leading Companies

With Roche, Novartis and UBS, the headquarters of three of the world’s largest companies are located in Basel. But that is only half of the big picture. As well as Syngenta, which the Financial Times includes in its FT Global 500 Index as one of the most important companies worldwide, there are numerous other companies that operate highly successfully on the European or global market out of Basel.

 

Below you will find an overview of the most important companies in the Basel region as well as a selection of innovative companies and upcoming start-up companies in the various industry branches:

 

Basel Region Cluster