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B2B prospect lists for Germany.
Researched lists of German companies that should be buying what you sell, from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg to North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hesse. Industrial, energy, pharma and food, classified by priority, each with a reason to call. Delivered as Excel, usually within the hour on working days.
01 The German market
Sixteen federal states, three of them city-states
Germany is made up of 16 federal states (Länder): Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia. Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen are city-states. The regional figures below come from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), which compiles them together with the statistical offices of the states. A prospect list can be scoped to one state, several neighbouring states or the whole country.
Industrial and manufacturing: machinery, vehicles and metals
Manufacturing establishments with 20 or more people employed 5,940,551 people at the end of September 2025, according to Destatis's annual manufacturing report. Bavaria accounted for 1,293,885, Baden-Württemberg for 1,263,681 and North Rhine-Westphalia for 1,171,018, followed by Lower Saxony (551,482) and Hesse (370,553). Machinery employed 1,008,495 people, including 304,736 in Baden-Württemberg, 221,762 in Bavaria and 195,617 in North Rhine-Westphalia. Motor vehicles and parts employed 738,936, with 208,568 in Baden-Württemberg, 204,244 in Bavaria and 114,039 in Lower Saxony. Basic metals employed 224,646, of which 93,329 were in North Rhine-Westphalia. Other transport equipment, which covers ships, rail vehicles and aircraft, employed 161,393, including 48,701 in Bavaria and 23,405 in the city-state of Hamburg.
Energy and environmental technology: wind, solar and grid equipment
Power plants fed 438.2 TWh of electricity into the German grid in 2025, according to preliminary Destatis figures, and 58.6% of it came from renewable sources. Wind power contributed 131.3 TWh (30.0%), solar 70.1 TWh (16.0%), coal 96.8 TWh (22.1%) and natural gas 70.6 TWh (16.1%). Solar feed-in grew by 17.4% compared with 2024, while hydropower fell by 22.5%. Germany imported 79.6 TWh and exported 60.2 TWh, a net import of 19.4 TWh. Manufacturers of electrical equipment employed 416,908 people, with the most in Baden-Württemberg (102,171), Bavaria (94,547), North Rhine-Westphalia (84,101) and Hesse (39,828).
Pharma and life sciences: Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia
Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 134,195 people in 381 establishments in 2025. Baden-Württemberg (30,660), Hesse (26,221) and North Rhine-Westphalia (19,426) together accounted for 57% of them, and the city-state of Berlin had 30 pharmaceutical establishments employing 6,220 people. The chemicals industry employed 342,066, including 101,663 in North Rhine-Westphalia, 56,672 in Bavaria and 46,410 in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Food and agriculture: 599,788 people in food manufacturing
Food and feed manufacturing employed 599,788 people in 5,484 establishments in 2025. Bavaria had the most, at 131,995, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia (115,903), Lower Saxony (88,470), Baden-Württemberg (72,118) and Hesse (30,195). Beverage manufacturing employed a further 65,895 people.
How a German list is built
Choose your unit, describe what you sell and name the states you want covered, or the whole country. Nexfield works through all 56 sub-sectors of your unit and returns only companies that are probable buyers, never your competitors. Each row comes with state, city, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company belongs on your list.
02 Six sector units · 4 live, 2 launching soon
Choose the sector you sell into.
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UNIT 01
Industrial &
ManufacturingView unit -
UNIT 02
Energy &
Environmental TechView unit -
UNIT 03
Pharma &
Life SciencesView unit -
UNIT 04
Food &
AgricultureView unit -
UNIT 05
Construction &
Building MaterialsComing soon · not yet orderable -
UNIT 06
Logistics &
TransportComing soon · not yet orderable
Looking for one sector? Our industry pages include a section on Germany: manufacturing companies, energy companies, pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers. In German: Leadliste Industrie.
Packages — choose your scope
A sample of the real list
Delivered within 1h€99
One country, fully mapped
Delivered within 1h€950
Two countries
Delivered within 1h€1,500
Three countries
Delivered within 1h€2,000
All prices exclude VAT.
- Customers in the Netherlands: 21% Dutch VAT (BTW).
- Businesses in other EU countries with a valid VAT number: 0%, VAT reverse-charged.
- Businesses outside the EU, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Norway: 0% Dutch VAT.
German business customers: 0% Dutch VAT. The VAT is reverse-charged to you (btw verlegd / Steuerschuldnerschaft des Leistungsempfängers, Reverse-Charge-Verfahren), so you account for German VAT in your own return; your VAT number is shown on the invoice.
03 Questions
Questions about German lists.
One row per company: company name, country, region, city, sector, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company is a probable buyer of what you sell. You choose the federal states to cover, or take the whole of Germany. Delivered as an Excel file with filters on every column.
The four live units: industrial and manufacturing, energy and environmental tech, pharma and life sciences, and food and agriculture. In Germany that typically means machinery, vehicles and metals, wind, solar and grid equipment, pharma in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and food manufacturing. Construction and logistics are launching soon.
The Test is a sample of the real list: about 8 to 12 highly matched companies in Germany, in the same Excel format as a full order, for one fixed price of €99 with no subscription. If it fits, the Local package (€950) maps the rest of the country.
The list is about companies, not people: every entry is researched by our AI and confirmed in public sources, and it contains no personal contact details and no email addresses. You remain responsible for how you contact the companies, as set out in section 8 of our terms and conditions.
Businesses in Germany with a valid VAT number pay 0% Dutch VAT: the VAT is reverse-charged. Prices are always shown excluding VAT.
04 Who we are
An AI company with engineering roots.
Nexfield is an AI company. Our sector-specialist AI works through the 56 sub-sectors of your unit, finds the companies that should be buying what you sell, classifies and prioritises them, and reviews its own output against your description before anything is delivered.
Nexfield was founded by a chemical engineer with years in technical sales to the process industry. That is why the reasoning on every list follows how industrial buying actually works, rather than generic company data.
We work business-to-business only: one order, one fixed price, no retainer, no contract, no minimum. Every order is covered by our terms and conditions.
Company details
- Trading name
- Nexfield
- Legal entity
- Valck Engine
- Based in
- Roermond, the Netherlands
- Chamber of Commerce (KvK)
- 42136717
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- NL005525568B18
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