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Developing your activities with strong added value is a true challenge.
Côte d'Azur is THE territory responding to your strategy

  • Expertise on a worldwide level in the main innovative sectors: IT and biotechnology
  • Opportunities for technology partnership and cross-fertilization projects
  • Highly qualified and multi-cultural Human Resources
  • Europe's leading science and technology park: Sophia-Antipolis
  • A large scope of financial and fiscal incentives dedicated to company setting-up and innovation
  • New corporate real estate programs available at highly competitive prices
  • An incomparable lifestyle - a source of motivation for company personnel

INTERNATIONAL REACH

  • Côte d'Azur, the second most international area in France after Paris
  • Foreign nationals account for 12% of the population
  • 160 nationalities represented
  • 84,000 foreign nationals with working permits, including 44% EU citizens

EMPLOYMENT

  • Working population: 432,283
  • 421,900 currently employed
  • Foreign working population of 37,000
  • 83% of the working population (343,537 people) is employed in the service sector
  • 60,000 new jobs since 1999

BUSINESSES BASED ON THE CÔTE D'AZUR

  • 106,153 companies, or 25% of all companies in the Provence- Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and 2.2% of companies in France
  • 1,500 companies financed by foreign capital, with 22,900 jobs and 55 nationalities

THE THRIVING CÔTE D'AZUR ECONOMY

  • €51.25 billion in revenue
  • €26.9 billion in GDP
  • 5th in France for asset productivity, at €75,553 per job

PORTS

  • Over 600,000 cruise passengers a year
  • First cruise port in France
  • 32 ports
  • Antibes, Europe's largest yachting harbour

CÔTE D'AZUR AIRPORTS

The Nice Côte d'Azur airport is the largest international airport in France, after Paris.

  • 10 million passengers in 2007
  • 98 direct destinations to 28 countries (75% with at least one flight a day), operated by over fifty airlines, of which one out of three is a business low cost airline
  • 35 Nice-Paris flights a day
  • Cannes Mandelieu airport, the secondlargest business jet airport in France