page_title: Spreitenbach
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Spreitenbach / Economy
caption_attribution_description: IKEA in Spreitenbach in the Limmat Valley (Switzerland)
context_page_description: Spreitenbach is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley.
  It lies southeast of the district center, directly on the border with the canton of Zurich.
  It is one of the smallest cities in Switzerland. In Switzerland, a city needs a population of 10,000 or more to be considered as a city.
context_section_description: Spreitenbach is a distinguished economic area, because of its protruding position in the west of the Zurich metropolitan area. Over 700 businesses employ about 6900 workers. Of these 1% are in the agricultural sector, 22% in the industrial sector, and 77% in the service sector. The two large shopping centers Shoppi and Tivoli as well as the furniture store IKEA (the first store opened outside of Scandinavia, in 1973), form the backbone of the service economy. Several leading companies operate in Spreitenbach; the most notable are Zweifel Pomy-Chips (potato chips), Bridgestone (car tires), Johnson & Johnson (pharmacy/cosmetics), Nestlé (foodstuffs), Miele (household goods), and Globus (retail trade).
  As of 2000 there was a total of 5,192 workers who lived in the municipality.  Of these, 3,709 or about 71.4% of the residents worked outside Spreitenbach while 4,327 people commuted into the municipality for work.  There were a total of 5,810 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.
caption: IKEA in Spreitenbach
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