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ATTRACTING WORLD LEADERS
AS A COMPETITIVE AND COSMOPOLITAN DESTINATION, LYON ATTRACTS A GROWING NUMBER OF COMPANIES AND NEW TALENTS.
With 900 foreign-owned companies and 82 headquarters and administrative offices of companies with over 1000 employees, the Lyon region now boasts a density of decision centers higher than that of Barcelona and Manchester! Lyon has what it takes:
- 1500 decision centers, including Sanofi Aventis, Sanofi Pasteur, bioMérieux, Groupe Seb, Renault Trucks, Club Med, Euronews (world headquarters), Bayer Cropscience, JTEKT and Scotts International (European headquarters), to name a few.
- International institutions: Interpol, International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, the only Bio-safety level 4 lab in Europe, and others.
- A complete range of advanced services: from banking and finance to HR consultants, insurance, auditing firms, business property, etc. The Part-Dieu area is France's second-largest business district after La Défense in Paris.
- A vast and competitive pool of sub-contracting industries: mechanical industries, textiles, equipment makers and more, for a total of over 6500 companies, 166,000 jobs, and 20% of the total national production, all based in the Rhône-Alpes region.
FREDERIC TURNER
General Manager of Genzyme France
In November 2006, we signed the papers to buy a 3.7 hectare site (8 acres) to set up a bio-production unit in the Lyon TechSud business park. The project, conducted in partnership with Greater Lyon and Aderly, is part of a major plan for expanding our global activity in antibody production. Local expertise and technological know-how, along with the highly active Lyonbiopôle cluster, contributed to our choice of the Lyon area. The TechSud business park puts us in contact with world leaders in human and animal health, as well as research centers which offer us all sorts of possibilities for collaboration. 
PIERRE MONNIN
Director of MICOS BANCA France
We chose Lyon for the headquarters of our main branch in France based on a range of criteria and advantages: proximity to Italy, a pleasant living environment, working conditions made easier by the vitality of the metropolitan area and the region, and many other reasons! Lyon is considered by Italy as a leading capital for services. We were also convinced by the ease of finding centrally located premises suitable for our current needs and for our future development, not to mention the commitment and efficiency of the Aderly team!
