This is the first occasion I have had to acknowledge the new IFA website going live a few weeks ago, which we hope you will find to be:
- clearer: the new site has been expressly redesigned with this in mind and has been supplemented by a new “Daily Motion – IFA” space, where videos featuring reaction and testimonials from foreign business executives are now hosted, along with IFA productions about France.
France is the #1 investment destination in Europe
- more open: better links towards IFA partners, regional development agencies and innovation clusters in particular, offering even more insights into the wealth and diversity of France’s regions.
- more welcoming: providing information to foreign businesses interested in France is obliging us to broaden the multilingual aspect of our website as new actors on the international investment scene grow in power and stature. In addition to English, German, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese, content will soon follow in other languages, such as Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Russian and Arabic.
- more interactive: this blog space is an invitation to exchange views about issues relating to international investment, France’s economic attractiveness and perceptions that foreign investors may have of the country.
I hope that all our readers enjoy using our new site, particularly those in Stockholm, where I was at the beginning of last week. Sweden is an important partner: over 700 dynamic and innovative Swedish companies are already doing business in France. More generally, Scandinavian countries have an enduring interest in our country, with over forty new investment projects in France given the go-ahead last year.
