How to set up business in France

Team France Invest is a collective at your service to provide you with personalized support.

With Team France Invest, Business France and its national and regional partners are on hand to:

• Promote France’s attractiveness
• Attract prospective foreign investors
• Support their establishment and development in France

Team France Invest provides a coordinated response in terms of research into land and buildings, skills, industrial partners and state aid, and is expanding its partnerships to new players (RTE, France Travail, National Institute for Preventative Archeological Research (INRAP), etc.)

Our teams meet with foreign businesses to identify projects that could be implemented in our regions.

Whatever the form of your project (creation, expansion or takeover of a site, partnership, financial investment), Business France, in close collaboration with regional agencies and government services, supports you through each stage for a smooth investment process.

Do you want to open a subsidiary? Start a new business? Support your R&D programs?

With us, find the right people to help you with your new business project!

Whatever your strategy may be, our teams are at your side throughout your project with a free, tailor-made offer.

Our teams in France and in 53 countries throughout the world are at your disposal to enlighten you about France’s key strengths, the power of its ecosystems, its infrastructures and its key players in all sectors.

Our experts provide you with information on the business environment, international mobility and the financial support available for the success of your investment project in France.

• “At Newcleo, we are proud of our strategic expansion in France. This establishment reinforces our commitment to regional development and our desire to actively contribute to the French energy transition.”

Ludovic Vandendriesche, Managing Director France, Newcleo SA

• “The group has invested heavily in the new Plouay site (Bretagne/Brittany region), as part of its development strategy. Apply Carbon has received assistance from the Brittany Region. This first phase of investment, now complete, positions us among the global leaders in our field.”

Hervé Cayuela, Chief Executive Officer, Apply Carbon

• The impetus given by local players, such as Solutions & Co., the Pays de la Loire development agency, Le Mans Métropole, the Pays de la Loire regional council, the State and the European Regional Development Fund has put us on the rails of this modernization, which will enable us to remain competitive in the long term.

Etienne Bourasseau, Chairman of CLAAS Tractor and Vice-President, Manufacturing.