Dong Xuan Center

"The Dong Xuan Center is an Asian wholesale market in Herzbergstraße in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin. [...]

Like many contract workers in the GDR, Nguyễn Văn Hiền became unemployed after German reunification. Immediately after reunification, he set up his own business selling clothes. He bought new goods from a wholesale company in Poland. Here he regularly met colleagues from Berlin. This gave him the decisive idea of offering everything himself in Berlin in the future. In 2005, he put his idea of a trading center into practice and founded the Dong Xuan Center. By the end of the 2010s, people from all over the world were already taking advantage of the wide range of textiles, Far Eastern food and services on offer."

Source (translated): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Xuan_Center

Today, more than 400 entrepreneurs with around 2000 employees run their businesses in the predominantly Vietnamese wholesale market on an area of 165,000 square meters. This has made the Dong Xuan Center the largest Asian market in Europe.