As a sales and project partner ILLIES links European technology providers with the manufacturing industry in Asian markets. The company is specialized in sales of technically sophisticated capital goods and technologies in Asian markets. ILLIES is based in Hamburg, Germany and represented in seven Asian markets and 13 locations across Asia. Approximately 300 employees from different cultures decisively contribute to ILLIES' success each and every day. Founded in 1859 as the first German trading house operating in Japan, ILLIES is a pioneer in East Asian trade and has been combining German reliability and integrity with the great flexibility and dynamic of East Asia for almost 160 years. For nearly four decades ILLIES has been operating in greater China; today with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei.