They will not be treated to the gilded halls of the Château de Versailles, as has been the case for their foreign counterparts every year since 2018. Instead, they will gather at the Maison de la Chimie, a more modest conference center in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Around 150 French companies, from major CAC 40 groups to small businesses and start-ups, have been invited to the first edition of a Choose France summit focused exclusively on domestic firms on Monday, November 17. The government-organized event aims to promote and communicate about homegrown success, even as storm clouds gather once again over the French industrial sector.
France’s economy and finance minister, Roland Lescure, was to use the occasion to announce €30.4 billion in investments by French companies covering 151 projects across the country in 2025, according to figures released by his office on Sunday. Of that total, €9.2 billion concerns new projects to be detailed on Monday, including expected investments in data centers and waste recycling sites. The remaining €21.2 billion are investments already announced since the start of the year, such as the €1.7 billion fundraising by artificial intelligence start-up Mistral in September, or the decision of aerospace group Safran, made public in July, to put €450 million into a brake factory in eastern France.
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