Foreign investment
A leading host region for foreign direct investment in France - 1 person in 7 works for a business with foreign owners.
Altogether 1,140 foreign businesses employ 126,122 people in Northern France. Key sectors are metals and metalworking, agrifood and Automotive. Metals and metalworking, where they are from German and Luxembourg ;Agrifood, where they are from US and Netherlands and automobiles, where Japanese investment predominates.
Altogether 1,140 foreign businesses employ 126,122 people in Northern France. Key sectors are metals and metalworking, agrifood and Automotive. Metals and metalworking, where they are from German and Luxembourg ;Agrifood, where they are from US and Netherlands and automobiles, where Japanese investment predominates.
Investment sources
European Union: 871 businesses - 65,993 employees
Other Europe: 61 businesses - 6,421 employees
North America: 148 businesses - 18,946 employees
Asia-Pacific: 58 businesses - 9,623 employees
Other: 12 businesses - 263 employees
 | Germany : 18,040 total workforce - 182 businesses |
 | United States : 14,695 total workforce - 131 businesses |
 | Belgium : 11,937 total workforce - 291 businesses |
 | United Kingdom : 11,887 total workforce - 164 businesses |
 | Japan : 9,329 total workforce - 43 businesses |
Businesses from Scandinavia (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) employ 5,479 people.
41 italian businesses employ 6,344 people.
Over the past 14 years, foreign businesses launched 626 investments in Northern France, with the number of new jobs announced totaling 39,629 or near 11% of all new employment from foreign investment in France.
Businesses with foreign owners are present in all main sectors where our region excels. :
