Open economy
France: an attractive economy
85% of foreign senior executives
believe that France is attractive
Annual Report: Foreign investment in France, Business France, 2021
Foreign investment in France in 2020
1,215
investment decisions,
52% in new openings
Annual Report: Foreign investment in France, Business France, 2021
34,567 new jobs
created by foreign investors
Annual Report: Foreign investment in France, Business France, 2021
28 new investment decisions every week from foreign companies
Annual Report: Foreign investment in France, 2020, Business France
#1 Host country for industrial investment
in the last 15 years in Europe
EY, 2021
#1 in Europe for inward R&D investments
EY, 2021
Top 3 foreign investors in France
Annual Report 2019 : Foreign investment in France, Business France, 2021
Thirty one of the world's top 500 companies are French
Fortune Global 500, 2019
Foreign companies in France
#2 in Europe for foreign subsidiaries (more than 28,000)
Eurostat, 2019
Simplified Customs procedures
#1
for the efficiency of cross-border trade
ahead of the United Kingdom (33rd)
and Germany (42nd)
World Bank, Doing Business, 2020
Foreign investors hold
42.2% of the capital holdings
belonging to companies listed on the CAC40
Banque de France, 2019
Foreign-owned businesses account for
17% of total value added (€173 billion)
22% of total value added for industry (€64.9 billion)
13% of salaried employment
INSEE, 2021
16,800 firms were under foreign ownership in France in 2019
They employed 2.2 million people
INSEE, 2021
France, a hub for exports
to Africa (70%)
and Europe (81%)
Kantar public, Business France, 2019