| Deutsche Börse Group has two office buildings in the Frankfurt area: in “Industriehof” in the Hausen district of Frankfurt and in the city of Eschborn, located just outside Frankfurt’s city limits. Eschborn Construction of a new, state-of-the-art buidling in Eschborn is to be completed by summer 2010. Until then, a twelve story office building in the business park in Eschborn-Süd serves as interim accommodation for 1,000 employees. It is located at Frankfuter Staße 60-62, about 800 meters from the Eschborn-Süd train station. A bus shuttle service regularly commutes between the station and Deutsche Börse’s Eschborn location as well as between Eschborn and Neue Börse in Frankfurt-Hausen. The building has 20,000 m² of office space and views of the Frankfurt skyline and the surrounding Taunus hills. The building was built in 1990 but has been renovated and modernized to meet the requirements of Deutsche Börse, including an employee restaurant and bistro. Employees work in spacious team offices which makes communication between team colleagues easy. The underground parking lot has 200 parking spaces and an exterior parking area provides parking space for visitors. The Eschborn building is located only a few hundred meters from the autobahn A66 and is easily accessible from the exit Eschborn. Neue Börse In June 2000 Deutsche Börse moved to a new building: 'Neue Börse' in Frankfurt-Hausen, a modern office complex on a site some 48,000 m² in size. Short distances and good facilities make for a pleasant and communicative working atmosphere. Eight five-story buildings are positioned in the shape of a fan on the site. A transparent glass corridor from east to west links the individual buildings. This corridor extends over all stories and acts as the spine of the building. A transparent glazed lobby is the heart of the building. It presents a forum for communication and in-house events. The hall is flanked by three training and conference rooms on each side. Transparency was one of the leitmotive for the architects of Neue Börse. The office premises consist of contemporary, highly flexible units and almost floor-to-ceiling windows allow light to penetrate deep inside. Employees work in open-plan team rooms. For smaller meetings, confidential talks or concentrated work, they can retire to “quiet rooms”. For larger meetings, bigger meeting rooms are located centrally at the intersections of the office buildings. Parallel to the construction of Neue Börse, work began on assembling a collection of contemporary photographs: the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. Large-format works of German and international artists were acquired especially for the site in co-operation with the Museum of Modern Art. They inspire and give Neue Börse an individual face. The city of Frankfurt Given its convenient location almost in the center of Germany, Frankfurt/Main has enjoyed nationwide importance for centuries. Where once the Franconians created a ford over the river Main, important trading paths have crossed here ever since and contributed to the steady increase in the economic strength of the city, situated in the south of the German federal state of Hesse. The role played by bridges in the past has since been taken over by the runways of the central Rhine-Main airport – with more than 50 million passengers per year it is the second largest in Europe – and by the eight lanes of the adjacent autobahn junction. The Frankfurt Trade Fair is also operates globally; incidentally, it is the oldest in the world. During the book fair, music fair or automotive show: in peak years, the city on the Main attracts up to 2.7 million trade fair visitors. Today, almost 300 banks, around half of which are foreign and including Deutsche Bundesbank, and since 1998 the European Central Bank (ECB) control the flow of money from here. With 600,000 jobs, Frankfurt has almost as many employees as residents (670,000). International and multilingual dimensions are part of daily life. After all, one in three Frankfurt inhabitants does not originate from Germany. Deutsche Börse Group works globally but the majority of its employees live where they work: in greater Frankfurt/Main. | 
