Bavaria’s Minister for International Affairs Emilia Muller is expected to a lead a team of industrialists and businessmen to Kerala in September as part of efforts by the south-east German State to explore possibilities of improved business, industry, and cultural relations with India.

The team from Bavaria will visit Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and expects to forge a strong relationship with Kerala as it has with Karnataka, with which it has a partnership agreement.

The partnership agreement, signed in 2007, specifies areas of cooperation such as industry, education, and cultural affairs, said executive director of the India office of the State of Bavaria John Kottayil.
He said that the partnership agreement resulted in substantially improved business-to-business and people-to-people contact between the two States, educational exchanges being a key area and a highlight of the relationship.

Bavaria, the ninth largest economy in the European Union and the most prosperous State in Germany, is home to multinational companies such as Siemens, Adidas, and BMW, which have their presence in India
There are around 80 Indian companies that operate out of Bavaria and Indian investors in the State include the Kochi-based NeST group of companies, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Dr. Reddy’s, and HCL.
India-Bavaria trade is worth three billion euros annually