EZ aims to make all companies feel welcome and at home in Amsterdam. A further goal is ensuring excellent opportunities for starting and growing companies - whether national or international in focus - to set up business in the city. That’s why EZ focuses on helping existing businesses to grow, as well as on attracting companies from outside Amsterdam. In this way, the city benefits from increased employment opportunities, and EZ contributes to building a sustainable urban society.
EZ makes this possible by carrying out and commissioning research into market requirements and opportunities. These surveys allow the city to establish the priorities that make it attractive for entrepreneurs to set up business here. This provides employment and strengthens the core values of Amsterdam (creativity, innovation and commercial spirit). EZ then develops new policies based on these market needs and implements them, or commissions third parties to implement them.
Besides research and policy development, EZ carries out a number of functions of great importance for companies in the Amsterdam region: it brings in foreign companies, supports Dutch companies in finding business locations, and nurtures established businesses so that they can expand and develop.
Foreign companies wanting to set up business in Amsterdam can contact Amsterdam inbusiness via the English-language website: www.amsterdaminbusiness.com