LADEC - Boosting your business!

Owners
Primary owner: City of Lahti (87 %).
Other owners: cities, municipalities, companies, universities and institutions of higher education in Päijät-Häme.

Funding municipalities (7)
Cities of Lahti and Orimattila and municipalities of Asikkala, Hartola, Hollola, Iitti and Padasjoki.

Shareholdings
LADEC has a subsidiary, the renewable energy research centre Energon Oy.

LADEC in figures 

• With the help of our start-up advice, over 200 new companies are founded in the Lahti region every year.
• We provide business development services to 700 corporate customers per year.
• Our customers give us the school grade 9+ (weekly feedback polls: average grade).

Together with our funding municipalities, Lahti, Asikkala, Hartola, Hollola, Iitti, Orimattila and Padasjoki, we are developing this urban region, with its diverse business scene, into the most environmentally friendly growth centre of sustainable development in Finland.

• We develop business services with a customer-centric approach.
• We try to reduce the bureaucracy encountered by businesses and improve the availability of the services they need.
• We work together with our funding municipalities to carry out strategically significant development projects. 
• We speed up the design and implementation processes of business and residential area projects by finding sources of funding and new solutions as well as by assisting the municipalities in carrying out baseline studies.
• We support dialogue between companies and municipalities and promote the process of making investments and procurements more accessible to SMEs.
• We market the Lahti region as a developing and attractive business environment under the Lahti Business Region brand, in cooperation with the municipalities. We promote the strengths of the region and the opportunities it provides as a business environment on the www.lahtibusinessregion.fi website.

The Board of Directors of Lahti Region Development LADEC Ltd from 30 May, 2024

Chair
Toni Putula  |  Entrepreneur (Lahti)

Representatives of the funding municipalities / business
Jari Laaksonen  | Talousneuvos (Finnish Honorary Title) | Asikkala
Lasse Koskinen | Journalist | Lahti
Sanna Virta | M.A. | Participation Coordinator | Lahti
Pekka Raitala | Business Mentor | Hartola & Padasjoki
Sami Konsti | Director of Sales and Development | Rakennusbetoni- ja Elementti Oy | Hollola
Atte Savelainen  |  Managing Director |  Atplast Oy | Iitti
Juha Aalto  |  M. Sc. (Econ.)  |  Entrepreneur | Orimattila

Representatives of higher education institutions
Turo Kilpeläinen  |  President, CEO  |  LAB University of Applied Sciences
Jussi Karvinen  | Director of Planning |  University of Helsinki

Expert member
Janne Hokkanen | Strategy Director | LUT University