• Gross Domestic Product (GDP): FF 460 billion
• Total Population: 1.41 million persons
• Over 45,500 private businesses for a total workforce of 640,000
  (83,000 businesses in all, including 14,000 artisans and craftsmen and 16,000 shopkeepers)
• Number 1 French department in terms of exports: 43 of France's 100 leading exporting businesses are set up in the HAUTS-DE-SEINE
• Over 500 foreign businesses are set up in the HAUTS-DE-SEINE, generating 50,000 jobs
• On average, nearly 13,500 new businesses are created each year
• 22 of France's 50 leading groups have their corporate headquarters in the HAUTS-DE-SEINE
• 278 businesses in the HAUTS-DE-SEINE have annual sales of over FF1 billion
• There are nearly 280 private and public research centers in the HAUTS-DE-SEINE
• 15,000 researchers make up 40% of the potential for the Ile de France region and 25% of the potential nationwide.
• La Défense: Europe's Number 1 Business Center and among the world's largest, La Défense is home to over 3,600 businesses in 2,500,000 square meters of office space and represents over 140,000 jobs. The business center alone is one of the Departments key features--a crossroads for the headquarters of major groups. La Défense is the economic capital of the HAUTS-DE-SEINE Department and includes 13 of the world's 50 leading groups: Exxon, IBM, Mobil, British Petroleum, Unilever, Elf-Aquitaine, Electricité de France (EDF), Hoechst, Proctor & Gamble, Alcatel Alsthom, PSA Peugeot, ABB Asea Brown Boveri, PepsiCo, etc.

      One-of-a-kind professional contact:

To facilitate your set up at the gateway to Paris, the HAUTS-DE-SEINE has a unique system of professional contact to meet your every localization need. This unit will help you with finding site location identification according to your specific criteria. It will organize visits to facilities and help you cut through administrative red tape and assist you in job recruitment, free of charge. This one-step, on-of-a-kind service is the HAUTS-DE-SEINE's Economic Mission.

[ Overall Presentation I Transportation Infrastructure I Good Living ]
[ Area of Development I Highly Qualified Workforce I HAUTS-DE-SEINE Ambassadors ]