At the service of companies, Le Havre Développement federates the energies of the major institutional partners of Le Havre region to provide you with support and advice at all stages of your project.

Whether you are a multinational, a Small or Medium Enterprise or a start-up, our team of specialists will adapt to the scale of your project, to your problems and to your needs in order to turn the development of your business into a human, technical and commercial success.

Le Havre Développement missions

	To support business creation projects
	To promote the region and economy of Le Havre in France and abroad
	To detect and prospect national and international investors
	To develop the economic structure of Le Havre and support local companies
	To promote the leading sectors of the economy of Le Havre
	To support all practical aspects of economic projects

Setting-up and development consultancy

Thanks to its sector-based and geographic competence and to its accurate knowledge of the economic structure of Le Havre, our team will bring to your expansion, development, setting-up or creation projects all the attention necessary to make them successful.

Provided with a development engineering department, Le Havre Développement will be your privileged projectmanagership assistant in all the key stages of your project:

	Elaboration of your requirements
	Sourcing and viewing your set-up sites
	Find partners and suppliers
	Financial engineering - Financial benefits
	Administrative formalities
	Economic and fiscal information
	Development follow-up

Welcoming of staff

Since its creation, Le Havre Développement has gained sound experience in welcoming the employees of newly set-up companies:

	Pre setting-up information provided to staff
	Promotion of the quality of life in Le Havre
	Preparation before removal: accommodation, job-seeking assistance for husbands/wives, schooling…
	Personalized follow-ups

Depending on project scale, a specialized staff welcome unit, efficient and responsive, can be rapidly implemented according to your requirements.

Aware that happy employees are essential to an efficient and responsive company, the objective of our agency is to provide your staff with all the keys which will enable them to benefit from the advantages of Le Havre quality of life.

Development follow-up

Le Havre Développement does not only help you setting up your activity on its area. For us, the notion of support is seen from a long-term perspective.

Your activity will thus benefit from a long-term follow-up; our team will always be ready to advise you on your future projects.

Promotion of the area

In close collaboration with local economic actors, Le Havre Développement works on informing those concerned about the advantages of Le Havre region.

Through its information supports, commercial missions, involvement in economic development networks and active participation in numerous international professional exhibitions, our agency is committed to the promotion of a unique European development center...

Sector-based prospecting

Le Havre Développement prospecting team benefits from a sector-based and geographic competence, as well as from a perfect knowledge of company problems, of their specialty, of the economic structure of Le Havre and of local and national actors involved in economic development.

So many advantages which allow Le Havre Développement to adhere to the reality of company life and to best respond to the customers’ expectations while prospecting.

Our agency combines the energies of its partners while carrying out its commercial missions in France and abroad and benefits, within the framework of its international actions, from the support of Normandie Développement, representative of the DATAR (French Delegation of Territorial Planning and Regional Action) and AFII (Invest in France Agency) for Normandy.