Oktoberfest Business Partners

Lufthansa

Lufthansa is one of the world’s leading airlines, connecting passengers to over 200 destinations across 74 countries from hubs in Frankfurt and Munich.

As an industry pioneer, Lufthansa is committed to shaping the future of sustainable aviation, investing in next-generation aircraft, cutting-edge technology, and digital solutions. Their goal is to drive excellence: not just in the sky, but across every touchpoint of the travel experience.

With Lufthansa Allegris, their new long-haul experience, they are setting a new standard in premium travel, introducing a completely redesigned First, Business, Premium Economy, and Economy Class for ultimate comfort and choice.  They continue to enhance the travel experience with state-of-the-art lounges, award-winning service, and onboard broadband Wi-Fi (FlyNet) across their entire long-haul fleet.

Allianz

The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers serving private and corporate customers in nearly 70 countries. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 749 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore, asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage about 1.8 trillion euros of third-party assets. Thanks to systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in their business processes and investment decisions, Allianz is among the leaders in the insurance industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2024, over 156,000 employees achieved total business volume of 179.8 billion euros and an operating profit of 16.0 billion euros for the Group.

Bayer

Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 160-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With their innovative products, they are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.

A growing and aging world population requires an adequate supply of food and improved medical care. With Bayer's innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. With life expectancy continuing to rise, Bayer improves quality of life for a growing population by focusing its research and development activities on preventing, alleviating and treating diseases. Bayer is also making an important contribution to providing a reliable supply of high-quality food, feed and plant-based raw materials.

Bayer's goal is to create value for their customers, stockholders and employees, while also strengthening the company’s earning power. They are committed to operating sustainably and addressing their social and ethical responsibilities.

The Bayer Group is managed as a life science company with three divisions – Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health and Crop Science. As of December 31, 2024, the Bayer Group comprised 291 consolidated companies in 80 countries.

Diconium

Diconium is a global tech company and end-to-end partner for building, running, and scaling intelligence across the entire value chain.

From first customer interaction to the product itself, Diconium connects software, data, and AI into solutions that perform in real business environments. With responsibility for results. And the human expertise to make them work. As part of the Volkswagen Group, Diconium operates in large-scale, global environments across some of the most complex and demanding industries — automotive, industrial, and beyond.

Everything they do is focused on making businesses intelligent.

Diconium works across industries where complexity is high and reliability and performance matter. Drawing on their experience in automotive and industrial, they know what it takes to make systems perform in demanding operational environments. With Volkswagen as a key client, Diconium operates at the core of one of the most complex, software-defined industries – millions of vehicles, global markets, products defined by software. If it works here, it works anywhere.

Greater Richmond Partnership

The Greater Richmond Partnership (GRP) is the lead regional economic development organization for the City of Richmond and the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico in Virginia.

GRP impacts the region by recruiting companies from all over the globe to provide employment opportunities and taxable capital investment for their local communities.

GRP offers no-cost site location assistance and other services to domestic and foreign companies planning new or expanded facilities. It is a single point of contact to the network of private sector and state and local government professionals that support a company’s location decision. GRP has four priorities: Advancing business recruitment and cluster development; Amplifying awareness and shaping perception of the region; Delivering world-class research and market intelligence; Elevating regional competitiveness.

Schaeffler

The Schaeffler Group has been driving forward groundbreaking inventions and developments in the field of motion technology for over 75 years. With innovative technologies, products, and services for electric mobility, CO₂-efficient drives, chassis solutions, and renewable energies, the company is a reliable partner for making motion more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable – over the entire life cycle.

Schaeffler describes its comprehensive range of products and services by means of eight product families: from bearing solutions and all types of linear guidance systems through to repair and monitoring services. With around 120,000 employees and more than 250 locations in 55 countries, Schaeffler is one of the world’s largest family-owned companies and ranks among Germany’s most innovative companies.