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

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] The Competitiveness Cluster at the service of renewable energies in construction and industry. Created in 2005, the Derbi Competitiveness Cluster brings together companies, laboratories, universities, training centers, professional federations, financial organizations and local authorities involved in the development of the renewable energy sector. Located in Occitanie, the Cluster is fully invested, both to support the Positive Energy Region strategy by 2050, and that of innovation through the "energy transition" axis of its Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS). Our mission is to develop, at the regional, national and international level, innovation, training, technology transfer, development and business creation. Renewable …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] Revealing innovative talents for Occitanie The CleanTech Vallée is developing the cleantech industry to support the ecological transition in the Gard. To boost the local economy and place people and ecology at the heart of its missions, the CleanTech Vallée wants to set an example by carrying out concrete and sustainable actions through co-innovation. Local authorities, private and public stakeholders are joining forces to make the Gard region a reference in the field of cleantech. Created in 2019 from a co-construction approach between private and public stakeholders, the CleanTech-Vallée and its ecosystem strive to set the tone …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

[Automatic translation follows] Growing the Gard business and territory 🚀 The Nîmes Chamber of Commerce can now claim more than 200 years of experience. Two hundred years of presence on the ground shaping the economic face of the department in a context punctuated by different events (world wars, the appearance and disappearance of industries, social changes, periods of recession or prosperity). Two hundred years of putting its teams at the service of creating economic development: promoting textiles and silk, the emergence of heavy industry around the Alès basin, the establishment of nuclear power in the Gard Rhodanien, aeronautical maintenance or, …

Sectors: Chamber of commerce

[Automatic translation follows] Support for fundraising and sale/acquisition - Valuation of startups and VSEs/SMEs - UGAP Rating Linkera is the essential solution dedicated to optimizing business acquisition and sale transactions. The platform connects business owners and potential buyers. Each month, it presents companies and assets worth millions of euros to nearly 2,000 users. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Rating, Financial & extra-financial advice, investment, algorithm, data, UGAP, Valuation, Fundraising, Sale, Acquisitions, Financing, Startups, VSEs, and SMEs

Sectors: Consulting