Destination 05

Économie & Innovation

Business and innovation

Luxury houses, aerospace giants and a booming startup scene — how France does business, and how to do it en français.

Les géants

The giants

LVMH, Hermès, Chanel

France leads the global luxury industry — savoir-faire as an export.

Airbus, Safran, Dassault

Toulouse is Europe's aerospace capital.

Startups

Paris, 2017

One of the world's largest startup campuses, in a converted railway depot.

Homegrown scale-ups

French innovation reaching millions across Europe.

At the office

Allow me to follow up

The polite email follow-up. French business writing loves formality.

Kind regards

The safe email sign-off. Bisous is for friends only!

Prochaine destination

Vivre & Travailler en Europe