Business France is a French Government agency created on 1 January 2015 through a merger between UBIFRANCE and the French Agency for International Investment (InvestInFrance).
It has the status of a public institution, as well as of an industrial and commercial character under the supervision of the
Ministry of Economy and Finance, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the Ministry of Rural Spatial Planning and Development Territory.
Business France's Chairman is
Pascal Cagni and Director General is
Laurent Saint-Martin.
Business France work is divided into four main pillars:
* Promote French exports.
* Promote inward investments to France.
* Enable international internships in French companies abroad, also open to candidates from the European Economic Area. This is done via an international internship called VIE, which stands for” Volontariat International en Entreprises”).
* Promote the image of France as a business country.
Priority is given to small innovative companies.
Business France has a cooperation agreement with 13 regional agencies.
History
Ubifrance was the French agency for export promotion. It succeeded the "Centre Français du commerce extérieur"(''French Center for external commerce''), or CFCE.
Its headquarters is on Boulevard Saint-Jacques,
14th arrondissement of Paris
The 14th arrondissement of Paris ( ), officially named ''arrondissement de l'Observatoire'' (; meaning "arrondissement of the Observatory", after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. It is situa ...
, but it is also based in the
World Trade Center of Grenoble.
UBIFrance has 66 economic missions in 46 countries and more than 1,400 employees in France and abroad responsible for helping French companies in their international development. France's budget bill for 2011 authorized €105,398,000 for the agency.
On 1 January 2015, UBIFRANCE merged with InvestInFrance and became Business France.
[http://namesorts.com/2014/12/21/business-france-the-new-organization-to-turn-france-into-a-fdi-magnet/ Business France, the new organization to turn France into a FDI Magnet]
Governance
Board of directors
The agency is run by a sixteen members board composed of:
* 1
National Assembly
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''député''
* 1 senator
* 3 government representatives
* 3
regional council members
* 5 economic experts
* 3 staff representatives
References
External links
Business France
Business organizations based in France
Organizations based in Paris
Export promotion agencies
Government agencies of France
2015 establishments in France
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