[Automatic translation follows] Supporting innovation in the tourism sector Regional network to develop innovation for the tourism market in Pays de la Loire, the Tourism InnovationLab. accompanies project leaders and structures wishing to innovate in tourism: economic watch, connection with stakeholders, visibility... tourism, innovation, cluster, and Pays de la Loire

Sectors: Research

L'Institut Agro Rennes-Angers. Grande école publique d'ingénieurs en agronomie, agroalimentaire, horticulture et paysage AGROCAMPUS OUEST is a higher education and research public Institute of the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Through a distinctive tradition of core-discipline excellence, interdisciplinary collaborations and productive partnerships, AGROCAMPUS OUEST • teaches students to think critically, objectively and creatively and to be lifelong learners, engaged leaders and productive worldwide citizens; • pursues research to advance knowledge and address regional, national and global challenges; • serves the society improvements through the generation, broad dissemination and application of knowledge. AGROCAMPUS OUEST achieves a high level of intellectual …

Sectors: Research

Crédit Agricole is the French economy’s leading financier and one of the top banking operators in Europe. As a leader in retail banking in Europe, the Group is also the leading European asset manager, the first bank insurer in Europe, and the third largest European operator in project financing. On the strength of its cooperative and mutual insurance foundations, its 154,000 employees and 27,000 administrators of local and regional banks, Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, useful bank, serving 54 million customers, 11.8 million mutual shareholders and 800,000 individual shareholders. Thanks to its universal retail banking model – the close …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Bank

Orange is here. Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with revenues of 39.7 billion euros in 2023 and 128,000 employees worldwide at 30 June 2024, including 72,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 285 million customers worldwide at 30 June 2024, including 246 million mobile customers and 21 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business. In February 2023, the Group presented its strategic plan "Lead the Future", built …

Tags: CAC40 Sectors: Law Practice Telecoms

[Automatic translation follows] Living intelligently Capital of one of the most dynamic regions in France, Rennes assumes its role as a leader in economic development 📈 ▶ Ranked 10th nationally, its urban area covers nearly 700,000 inhabitants with an economic basin that concentrates 300,000 jobs ▶ 1st "business friendly" city of cities with less than 500,000 inhabitants, it attracts many talents in several key sectors of the economy (research, digital technology, health, agri-food, environment or manufacturing) ▶ Open to the international, Rennes is the leading teaching center in the Grand Ouest with 68,000 students and fuels high-level research and innovation …

Sectors: French metropolis

[Automatic translation follows] The City and the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg are two separate institutions. However, since 1972, they have had the particularity of having a single administration and a common headquarters at their service. The second largest employer in Bas-Rhin (6,800 permanent employees), the City and Eurometropolis of Strasbourg have many areas of expertise: The City of Strasbourg is involved in the following areas: - culture, - schools, - social action, - youth, - sport, - green spaces and forests, - public lighting, - civil status and district town halls, - tourism, etc. The Eurometropolis of Strasbourg is involved in …

Sectors: French metropolis National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Activity, employment, environment, solidarity at the heart of the Centre-Val de Loire Region's challenges for the future A flagship location for creation, innovation and the art of living, the Centre-Val de Loire region has been, since the Renaissance, the one that best embodies the Nature-Culture and Heritage DNA. Strongly marked by its agriculture, the Centre-Val de Loire region is one of the leading cereal regions in Europe. It is also renowned for its internationally renowned competitiveness clusters: the Cosmetic Valley (perfumery and cosmetics), the Electrical Energy Sciences and Systems cluster (renewable energies, intelligent buildings and electrical equipment …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] The Pays de la Loire region includes 5 departments: Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée. It has 3.7 million inhabitants spread across 1,357 municipalities. It is a territory balanced between rural and urban areas, organized around 7 large urban areas (Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Cholet, Le Mans, Laval and La-Roche-sur-Yon) and 1,108 municipalities with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. Bordered by 450 km of coastline and crisscrossed by the Loire, the region has the leading port on the Atlantic coast. Its economic dynamism is a real strength that allows it to have the lowest unemployment rate in France (8.5%). …

Sectors: National and local authorities

Business France is the national agency for the internationalization of the French economy. It is responsible for the international development of companies and their exports, as well as prospecting for and welcoming international investments in France. It promotes the attractiveness and business image of France, its companies and its territories. It manages and develops the V.I.E (Volontariat International en Entreprise). Created on January 1, 2015, Business France is a merger of UBIFRANCE and the AFII (French Agency for International Investments). Business France has 1,500 employees located in France and in 70 countries. It relies on a network of public and …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Promote and support the emergence and development of innovative solutions from farm to fork. Food is a major challenge today. How to help people eat better is a real problem, as is knowing how to feed the population in 2050. Thus, the FoodTech network aims to promote a diet based on the triptych of pleasure, responsibility and accessibility. For us, digital technology, new technologies and more broadly innovation are remarkable ways to move towards this vision by contributing to agricultural and food transitions, and to the evolution of practices. Our mission: to promote and support the emergence …

Sectors: French Tech Media

Nous animons, fédérons et faisons rayonner l'écosystème Tech angevin, à tous niveaux : local, national, international ! La French Tech Angers, c'est avant tout une dynamique de territoire en faveur de startup et des entreprises innovantes pour leur croissance et leur rayonnement à l'international. C'est aussi tout un écosystème capable de se coordonner pour donner aux entrepreneurs les clefs nécessaires à la création, au développement et à l'internationalisation de leur projet/entreprise. --- La French Tech Angers is a local initiative whose goal is to support IT startups and innovative SMEs This initiative is supported by the wholde community of economic …

Sectors: French Tech

[Automatic translation follows] The Agency for Ecological Transition! ADEME in brief The Agency for Ecological Transition participates in the implementation of public policies in the areas of the environment, energy and sustainable development. It provides its expertise and consulting capabilities to businesses, local authorities, public authorities and the general public, in order to enable them to progress in their environmental approach. The Agency also helps to finance projects, from research to implementation, in the following areas: waste management, soil preservation, energy efficiency and renewable energies, savings on raw materials, air quality, noise control, the transition to the circular economy and …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Let's cultivate plant audacity! The VEGEPOLYS VALLEY competitiveness cluster, born from the merger of VEGEPOLYS and Céréales Vallée-Nutravita, brings together on the theme of plants, small and large companies, research laboratories and training establishments. FROM GENETICS TO USES The members of the cluster are present across the entire plant value chain. They innovate for plants, on plants and by plants. This public-private, multi-sector, multi-trade network brings together all the expertise from upstream to downstream through production. Faced with the challenges, VEGEPOLYS VALLEY aims to be the global plant cluster for more competitive, more qualitative, environmentally and health-friendly …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] The national network of innovative players in the French equine sector. The Hippolia Cluster is an association approved as a "competitiveness cluster" by the French State, the only one dedicated to the equine sector. Follow the latest innovations in the sector on this page! Network, Equine sector, Communication, Innovation, Marketing, Business intelligence, Project support, Animation, Promotion, and Market study

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] The cross-party association of major cities, urban areas and metropolises. France urbaine is the leading association of metropolises, urban communities, urban communities and major cities. France urbaine is a cross-party association of communities that embodies urban diversity and promotes the alliance of territories. Led by elected officials of all political persuasions, the association is made up of 110 members. It brings together the major cities of France, metropolises, urban communities and urban communities, and represents 2,000 municipalities of all sizes in which nearly 30 million French people reside. France urbaine provides a political and technical vision for …

Sectors: Environment

[Automatic translation follows] 🗞Ouest-France, the leading French daily newspaper! Every day, over 600,000 copies in Normandy, Brittany & Pays de la Loire OUEST-FRANCE Company Founder of the Editorial Committee François Régis Hutin Chairman of the Board Louis Échelard - Director of Publication The associative status: Since the extraordinary general meeting of April 9, 1990, S.A. Ouest-France has been part of a non-profit association under the 1901 law, the "Association for the support of the principles of humanist democracy", chaired by Jacques Duquesne. Location: 58 editorial offices in the 14 departments in Brittany, Lower Normandy and Pays de la Loire, as …

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] 1st business accelerator Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nantes St-Nazaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nantes St-Nazaire

Sectors: Chamber of commerce

Move people through the wonders of sports. We are the world's Largest sports retailer. Founded in 1976, in France, we have set about making the pleasure and benefit of sports available for everyone across the globe. We do that by providing world class products at extremely affordable prices for all participants, from enthusiastic beginners to passionate professionals . Sports, Vente, and Conception

Sectors: Retail and Distribution

[Automatic translation follows] A mutualist model serving customers and employees. A mutualist banking network made up of 2,124 local banks, Crédit Mutuel is made up of 18 regional federations, covering the entire French territory. A partnership and not a capital company, Crédit Mutuel is not listed on the stock exchange. Its strategy is thus freed from the search for short-term profitability alone, in favor of long-term development. Its central objective: to provide a quality service at the fairest cost to all its members. Its decentralized organization thus promotes quality of service to customers and responsiveness, through short decision-making circuits. Recognized …

Sectors: Bank

[Automatic translation follows] INRAE, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, is a major player in research and innovation created on January 1, 2020. A finalized research institute resulting from the merger between Inra and Irstea, INRAE ​​brings together a community of 12,000 people, with just over 200 research units and around forty experimental units located in 18 centers throughout France. The institute is positioned among the very first world leaders in agricultural and food sciences, plant and animal sciences, and ranks 11th worldwide in …

Sectors: Research

[Automatic translation follows] Higher education & research in #agronomy #environment #food Located in Angers since 1898 and now in Paris, ESA is the school of transitions: agronomic, food, environmental and digital. ESA is an international higher education and research institution. It trains 3,200 students each year: Engineer, BTS, Bachelor, Licence, Master and Doctorate. #A varied range of training courses: Around the engineering school, ESA has developed a range of around fifty training courses for young people and adults, from Bac to Bac+ 5 level, spread across 7 areas: • Plant production • Animal production • Agri-food • Viticulture & oenology …

We are Accor We are more than 290,000 hospitality experts placing people at the heart of what we do, creating emotion for our guests, and nurturing passion for service and achievement beyond limits. Building on the strength of our teams and of our fully integrated ecosystem of leading brands, personalized services & expert solutions, we break new ground to reimagine hospitality and inspire new ways to experience the world. We are dedicated to suit all desires and needs, and reinvent the guest experience every day with our 45 hotel brands across all segments- 5,600 properties around the world from luxury …

Sectors: Hospitality

[Automatic translation follows] Your trust is a long-term commitment to us VINCI Immobilier, a subsidiary of the VINCI group, is the first national developer to commit to achieving Zero Net Artificialisation (ZAN), starting in 2030, 20 years ahead of the objectives set by the Climate and Resilience Act. A leading player in urban recycling, VINCI Immobilier operates mainly in areas that are already urbanised or already artificialised throughout the country, in the two main market sectors: residential real estate (housing and managed residences) and commercial real estate (offices, hotels, shops), thus targeting investors, institutions and individuals. VINCI Immobilier also provides …

Sectors: Real Estate

[Automatic translation follows] Build Better Together As the leading French group and a major global player in construction, VINCI Construction brings together more than 830 companies and nearly 69,000 employees in around a hundred countries. Its expertise extends to all building, civil engineering and specialist activities associated with construction VINCI Construction is characterized, in addition to the breadth of its expertise, by a business model structured around three complementary components. A network of local subsidiaries: - in France, with VINCI Construction France, which has a solidly established network of 450 profit centers in mainland France, and VINCI Construction Dom-Tom, represented …

Sectors: Construction Real Estate

[Automatic translation follows] The leading local commercial network in France, the La Poste group is organized into 4 business lines: Services-Mail-Parcels, Banking and Insurance, Physical and Digital Distributor, GeoPost/DPDGroup for international. Present in more than 63 countries, on 5 continents, it achieved a turnover of €34.1 billion in 2023. In 2021, the La Poste group became the first public company to adopt the status of mission-driven company. 4 societal commitments are now included in its statutes: • Contribute to the development and cohesion of territories • Promote social inclusion • Promote ethical, inclusive and frugal digital technology • Work to …

Sectors: Postal services

[Automatic translation follows] Le Figaro, the culture of freedom since 1826, the leading general daily newspaper and the most visited news site in France. With an audience of over 9 million unique visitors (source: Médiamétrie/NetRatings), the site is characterized by the quality and depth of its content, the result of the complementarity between its paper editorial teams (daily and magazines) and its web editorial team; by its Internet 2.0 uses and the importance of video, which has become a central element of the content offering. Lefigaro.fr also bases its development on the synergies built with the other sites of the …

Sectors: Media

[Automatic translation follows] Interdepartmental Chamber of Notaries of Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne and Sarthe The Interdepartmental Chamber of Notaries of Maine et Loire, Mayenne and Sarthe includes 159 offices and 299 notaries. It is the representative body of the Notariat and thus constitutes the essential relay of the national communication policy while developing its own initiatives. It raises awareness among the general public on the role of the notary for any subject relating to business, heritage, family and real estate. Particularly promising, the notarial sector is constantly recruiting for different positions, ranging from secretary to accountant, including real estate negotiator or notary …

Sectors: Law Practice Legal Services

[Automatic translation follows] Supporting you in a world of innovations! Expert in innovation in Maine-et-Loire, Angers Technopole has over 30 years of experience in supporting innovative projects. Whether you want to develop your network, collaborate, create your company or develop a project at the heart of an existing structure, Angers Technopole is your preferred contact. The diversity of the support programs offered allows each innovative project leader to find the format adapted to their needs! Angers Technopole, both in terms of support for the creation and development of innovative companies and the innovation dynamics of the sectors, is supported by …

[Automatic translation follows] A major player in the social and solidarity economy, Mutualité Française, chaired by Eric Chenut, represents nearly 500 mutual societies. Born from the desire of women and men to protect themselves in solidarity from the hazards of life, mutual societies are non-profit partnerships. They are chaired by elected mutual activists. They act for the social protection of 32 million French people and promote the right of all to full health by intervening in complementarity and in partnership with Social Security and by contributing to the public health service. Mutual societies, groups and unions offer solutions in three …

Sectors: Health Insurance Mutual insurance

[Automatic translation follows] Institution of reflections created in 1866 for the economic and social development of the greater Lyon region. Agitator of ideas, think tank, lobby or reflection circle, all these qualifiers characterize the activities of the Société d’Economie Politique et Sociale de Lyon (SEPL) which, for more than 150 years, has continued to bring together great personalities from the economic, academic or political world, around major subjects for local development.

Sectors: NGO, Think Tank

[Automatic translation follows] Your home, our business! 🏠 Real Estate Developer, Real Estate Agencies and Services. A local real estate player, the Procivis Ouest Immobilier Group operates in the departments of Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Loire-Atlantique and Vendée. 🏠 Procivis Ouest Immobilier Group offers a comprehensive offer dedicated to housing through its various businesses: ➡️Real Estate Developer: new apartments and turnkey houses ➡️Developer of individual houses ➡️Real Estate Agencies and Services: transactions, rentals, rental management and condominium trustee Our expertise allows us to respond to all housing projects but also to respond to the projects of local authorities, in their search for …

Sectors: Real Estate

The official account of the French Government Follow Government news on this page in real time, including practical information, measures, numbers, results, and the profiles of economic players !

[Automatic translation follows] The ministry is organized into four technical departments (food, education and research, economic and environmental performance of companies, fisheries and aquaculture) whose action is coordinated by a general secretariat that ensures human resources management, financial affairs, service organization, information and communication, agricultural statistics and forecasting, legal affairs and pilots the ministry's modernization policy The decentralized services relay the action of the central administration in the regions and departments. The ministry has nearly 36,000 employees, half of whom work in the agricultural education and training sector. Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Agri-food, and Fisheries

[Automatic translation follows] Welcome to a world of content The TF1 group is a global player in the production, editing and distribution of content. Through its content, its ambition is to inspire society positively. The TF1 group organizes its activities in several additional poles: • The Broadcast pole with 5 clear channels (TF1, TMC, TFX, TF1 Films series, LCI), 4 thematic channels (Ushuaia TV, TV history, Breizh TV, Club series), 2 content platforms on demand (MyTF1, Tfou max), and the TF1 advertising. • The production center with Newen, which brings together 9 studios in France and internationally. • The digital …

Sectors: Media