Companies of East Germany

German branch of Costa Cruises, in turn a part of Carnival Corporation & plc

DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PROGRESS archive platform. The DEFA Foundation is a non-profit organisation that was established in order to preserve the films in the DEFA library as well as the film studios, and make them accessible to the public.

right|200px|thumb|Intershop's logo right|380px|thumb|The Intershop in Berlin Friedrichstraße station|Berlin Friedrichstraße underground train station, accessible from [[West Berlin only, , the only one with shop windows. East German books, as on display here, were not sold in normal Intershop stores.]]

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thumb|Fortschritt E 514 combine harvester Fortschritt (German for "Progress") was an East German brand of tractors, combine harvesters and other agricultural machines made by VEB Fortschritt (part of the IFA) in Neustadt, Saxony. It was the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the nation.

mining company in East Germany

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thumb|Reclam Universal-Bibliothek edition of Henrik Ibsen's [[Peer Gynt]]

German publisher

former German rail vehicle manufacturer

Peene-Werft is a German shipyard with headquarter and shipbuilding facilities in Wolgast. It had been part of the Bremen Lürssen Group since May 2013 until 2025, when was sold to Rheinmetall.

Jenapharm is a pharmaceutical company from Jena, Germany. Founded in 1950 in East Germany, the company focused from the beginning on the production and development of steroids. Because of the economic circumstances of the Eastern Bloc, the company initially used a unique process of steroid synthesis starting from hog bile, however, this method was abandoned a decade later in favor of total synthesis. Initially the company produced a wide range of generic steroids, including corticosteroids, but later on it focused on anabolic steroids, estrogens and progestins.

East German record label; imprint of the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten in Berlin, GDR

German shipbuilding company

People outside the opening of the first HO Department Store in Berlin in November 1948|thumb The Handelsorganisation (“Trading Organisation”, or HO) was a national retail business owned by the central administration of the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany and from 1949 on by the state of the German Democratic Republic. It was created in 1948. The enterprise was arranged into different departments – industrial goods, food, restaurants and department stores – and operated the large “Centrum” department stores in many cities of the GDR. Its stores stood in competition to those of the Konsum c

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Interhotel was an East German chain of luxury hotels. It was founded in 1965 as a chain.

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monopolistic music publisher in the German Democratic Republic

cooperative retail chain founded in 1945 by the Soviet Military Administration in occupied East Germany

shipbuilding company in Boizenburg, Germany

thumb|Minol station in Leipzig 2009 thumb|Minol IFA G5 based tanker. thumb|IFA S4000-1 based Minol tanker The VEB Kombinat Minol, founded on 1 January 1956, was the state-owned gasoline and lubricant reseller of the German Democratic Republic.

German shipyard in Wismar