Confederation of German Employers' Associations
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The Confederation of German Employers' Associations or BDA (German: Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände) is the umbrella organization for German employers' associations
. It represents interest groups in the areas of industry, the tertiary sector, banking, commerce, transport, trade and agriculture.
The seat of the BDA is in Berlin
(until 1999: Cologne
).
Employers' organization
An employers' organization, employers' association or employers' federation is an association of employers. A trade union, which organizes employees is the opposite of an employers' organization...
. It represents interest groups in the areas of industry, the tertiary sector, banking, commerce, transport, trade and agriculture.
The seat of the BDA is in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
(until 1999: Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
).