BVMW - Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft e.V.

The German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW) is a politically independent association which caters for all commercial branches and professions, and represents the interests of small and medium-sized businesses in politics, with administrative authorities, with trade unions and with major companies. Medium-sized businesses – around 3.3 million individual enterprises in all – are the backbone and impulse of the German economy.