A dense network of dynamic small and very small companies The Cambrai area counts over 4000 companies, including : • 3613 counting over 10 employees : 49 companies from 50 to 99 employees/ 13 companies from 100 to 199 employees/ 13 companies over 200 employees • 484 counting less than 10 employees • 1658 companies in the service pole and 1403 companies in the commerce pole.

A pre-eminently food-processing pole Principal economic sectors: Sugar (Tereos), grain industry (SPAC Buitoni), milk industry (Candia), animal feed (Royal Canin), fruits and vegetables (Soleco/Florette)… The association of metropolitan areas of Cambrai and the urban district of Arras, the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, the local and regional chambers of commerce and industry, the regional agriculture chamber as well as private partners, they have all come together to create a pre-eminently food-processing pole. This industry which is particularly implanted in the region, especially in the area of Arras-Cambrai, benefits from tools to strengthen its competitiveness. In this pole construction approach, public partners have relied on a consulting firm, in charge of a comparative diagnosis of the division, from the accompaniment to the implementation of the project, and of definition of the strategy. The PEAR has been baptised at the first assizes in Arras October 8th, 2009.

Specific education An education in adequacy with the needs of the food-processing industrial sector. The Hainaut-Cambréis Unviversity offers formations allowing the companies to find a frame adapted to their needs.   - Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie (DUT), (technical academic degree), speciality: Techniques of marketing in food-processing industry. - IUP in agro-industrial systems engineering : offers to answer the new constraints of the agro-industry, by turning out today the master-engineers of tomorrow’s business; quickly operational engineers, able to adapt themselves to any corporate culture. - Master's degree: preparing to work for a company in control of the quality and the risks in the food-processing industry, which is characterized by the know-how of all the food-processing industry methods and techniques; it optimizes the conception and the performance of an industrial system, considering the specificities of the transformed biological, animal or vegetable raw material. The goal of this formation is to train the future engineer in such methods of work that he can assimilate and apply the technologies as they get developed.

The biggest sugar refinery in the North of Europe Tereos, former Beghin-Say Formerly one of the most important French sugar refineries, the company was acquired by the Beguin-Say group, today Tereos. The sugar refinery centre of Escaudoeuvres was founded in 1872 by the engineer Jules Linard. From the very beginning the factory was organized according to a modern concept. Indeed it was furnished by numerous râperies (rasp centres), connected between themselves by an underground conduit. Still in service, it is the only sugar refinery of the North department. Tereos is a co-operative agro-industrial group gathering together 12000 French farmers, associated co-workers sharing the same values of solidarity, equity and responsibility to value their agricultural productions. The 13000 permanent staff of Tereos group work in the processing of sugar beet, sugarcane and cereals and the marketing of a full range of sugars, starch products, alcohol, bioethanol, co-products used in animal feed and electrical energy. Industrially implanted on 3 continents, in Europe, in America (Brazil) and in Africa (Mozambique and Réunion island), the company has 32 modern and of big capacity industrial facilities, and, in these regions, has a supply of sugar beet, cereals and sugarcane among the best in the world. Therefore, the group benefits from a regular increase of its activities. More information (Web connexion necessary)

An attractive real estate offer • Tertiary industry platform on the pole Gare in Cambrai • Logistic platform of 14000 m2 in the Parc Actipôle, near the A2 highway • Logistic platform of 16000 m2 and 13000 m2 in ZAC Vallée d’Hérie in Caudry • A hive of companies in Beauvois-en-Cambrésis to welcome and accompany the entrepreneurs • Mixed workshops-offices buildings available under 6 months

An EXCEPTIONAL help facility : up to 50000 euro by employment Massive exemption "Z.R.D." The companies which will settle down in the Cambrai area until December, 2012 will benefit from : - A 7 years tax exemption : full rate during 5 years and then graded - Exemption from business rate / Cotisation Economique Territoriale (territorial economic contribution) (tomorrow) during 5 years - Exemption from land tax during 5 years - Exemption from URSSAF employer's social security contributions during 3 + 2 years These facilities are conditioned and put an upper limit by tax departments, which will be contacted in due course. - Direct subsidies in the creation of employment (up to 10000 euro by employment) and in the preservation of employment (up to 5000 euro by employment) - Assistance to the formation and to the recruitment - ...

A unique land potential, 1h30 from Paris and Brussels, 3 hours from London

Immediately available offer : 70 hectares

Business Area Parc Actipôle near the A2 highway :
25 hectares available within an industrial and logistic estate of 180 hectares, in border of the A2 highway.

Hauts de Masnières park :
12 hectares among which a 5 hectare plot of land "key in hand" and a 6 hectare fallow land among which 3 hectares asphalted in the heart of a classified park High Environmental Quality and situated 4 km from the A26 highway and 6 km from the A2 highway.

Area of Hauts de Gouzeaucourt :
Stretchable available 10 hectares in 20 hectares situated 1 km from the A 26 highway and 8 km from the junction of highways A2 and A26.

Vallée d’Hérie park in Caudry :
Available 30 hectares situated in continuation of the industrial park of Caudry, 15 minutes from the A2 highway.

Business area Parc d’activités du Val de Calvigny in Iwuy :
18 hectares of extension 400 meters from the A2 highway, along the departmental road RD30, ideal to deliver the North of Europe of which Benelux.

Vallée d’Hérie park in Caudry	Business area Parc d’activités du Val de Calvigny in Iwuy
Business area Parc Actipôle near the A2 highway Hauts de Masnières park Area of Hauts de Gouzeaucourt

Offer to medium / long term 3 to 7 years: 700 hectares Business area Parc d’activités of Niergnies : Former military aerodrome in the southeast of Cambrai, on the south bypassing 8 km from the A2 highway. 300 hectares in the course of acquisition by the community of town of Cambrai. A first part of 50 hectares will be available in the year 2011. Air base 103 : It will offer a potential of 355 hectares immediately near to the Seine North Europe canal and to the multimodal platform of Cambrai/Marquion and A2/A26 highways. Various scenarios of transfer are on study. Multimodal platform of Cambrai/Marquion : 170 hectares (term 2016) 6 km from the A2 highway, 500 meters from the A26 highway.

The construction program of the century !
4000 direct jobs, 6000 to 7000 indirect jobs

Seine North Europe canal The project of the canal is not new. The increase in Europe of the transport by inland waterway of more than 33% between 1997 and 2007 relaunched its construction program for 2011. This canal will connect, by 2015, the Paris Basin with the North/Pas-de-Calais region. This missing link, between the Seine and the Escaut, will connect Paris and Dunkerque or Amsterdam and constitutes an opportunity for companies, facilitating the exchanges of river freight between these two regions of Europe while facilitating the environment. The platform of multimodal logistics of Cambrai/Marquion will be one of the four ones on the 106 km course between Compiègne and Paris. An adapted training plan The construction program of the century for our region will be financed by a public/private partnership (PPP) at the level of 4,2 billion euro. It will create more than 4000 direct jobs (refer to the frame) and 6 to 7000 indirect jobs. To make a success of this bet of the employment, the Cambrai and the Arras areas are mobilized around their Houses of the Employment to be more effective. An information pole will be settled in Marquion, by summer, so that the population can keep posted about the headway of the construction site also relieved on the future web site in progress. Finally, formations leading to a qualification, real stake for tomorrow, will be organized so that the local workforce is ready at the time of the opening of the construction site.   The canal in some figures… Beginning of the works : 2011 / End of the construction : 2015 • 106 km long among which 26 km in the North/Pas-de-Calais region • 54 m wide • 54 millions m3 of ground to be removed • 7 locks • 3 canal bridges • 59 highway and railroad bridges Platform of Marquion : 156 hectares where the archaeological soundings have already been realized. Transport by inland waterway : In 2009, in France: 2,30% to 14,3% in Belgium and 44,2% in Holland. By 2020 : 4,5 billion tons will be transported, multiplying the river traffic by 3,5. Size of barges : 4400 tons or more than 220 trucks by boat. Economy per transported ton : Road : 33 euros - Railroad : 27euros Inland waterway : 15 euros that is 18 euros of economy between road and river. Types of inquired jobs : Workers VRD, pipe workers, warehousemen, scrap merchants, coffer workers, watertighters, welders, oxycutters, heavy plant drivers, heavy trucks drivers, mechanics of experimented machines, security guards of road marking and circulation, topographer assistants, land surveyors… For more information : Nadège DURIMEL - TÉL. : 03.21.58.15.50