The founders

General Council

Commited to the economic development of its region and with the aim of enhancing its attractiveness, the General Council of the Val-de-Marne created the Development Agency in 2004.

The General Council’s intention was to create an organization to provide support to companies and promote their development. The General Council conducts various actions that complement the missions of the Development Agency :

• by supporting the creation and development of companies (innovation, export, real-estate, etc.),
• by supporting economic projects that are structuring for the region (e.g. Cancer Campus, The longer life expectancy centre, etc.),
• by assisting the development, the growth of strategic sectors (e.g. health, audiovisual and imaging, eco-activities, agri-food industry, etc.),
• by acting for developments that bring social cohesion (job access, discovery of trades and professions),
• and of course promoting the sustainable development of the regions (transport infrastructures, roads and public transport, housing, etc.).

Chamber of commerce and industry of Paris

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP) is a public institution overseen by a board of 80 elected corporate executives, each responsible for a different subject. Constantly anticipating the needs of the economic world, it develops innovative services hinging around four themes :

• Represent the interests of companies with respect to the public authorities.
• Advise companies at each stage of their development.
• Train employees and future directors.
• Develop a sector of excellence in the domain of trade fairs, congresses and exhibitions.

Val-de-Marne Small Enterprise Chamber

Created in 1976 and managed by craftsmen, the Val-de-Marne Small Enterprise Chamber helps qualified and future small enterprises (“artisans”) at each stage of their professional life: apprenticeship, company creation, training, economic development, company transfer.

Val-de-Marne Small Enterprise Chamber is a real business partner for artisans and represents them at different official bodies.

CTC primary mission : promote the development of companies in the trades and crafts sector.

CTC organizes several trade fairs in the Val-de-Marne to make these activities known to a wider range of publics. It advises and assists artisanal company owners wishing to exhibit in trade fairs in France and abroad.

Small enterprises represent the largest source of employment in France. In Val-de-Marne, it organises 250 trade groups and activities in different sectors, such as food, building, production, and services.

The Val-de-Marne Small Enterprise Chamber supports 15,000 small businesses.

The partners

EPA ORSA (Orly-Rungis-Seine Amont public development agency)

This agency is responsible for managing the Orly Rungis Seine-Amont national interest operation which extends over an area of 71 square kilometres, i.e. a third of the Val-de-Marne. The national interest operation involves 15 partners : 12 towns (Ablon-sur-Seine, Alfortville, Chevilly-Larue, Choisy-le-Roi, Ivry-sur-Seine, Orly, Rungis, Thiais, Valenton, Villeneuve-le-Roi, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Vitry-sur-Seine), the General Council of the Val-de-Marne, the Greater Paris (Ile-de-France) region and the State.

This major project aims at consolidating the role of the area by valorising its many assets : a central position in the urban agglomeration, very good transport links, large real-estate reserves, large infrastructures of national and international vocation, a dynamic economic fabric and expertise in cutting edge domains. It combines several objectives : enhancing the economic activity (more than 1,000 jobs per year), developing a diversified land and real-estate offering, widening the housing offering (more than 3,000 housing units per year), structuring the urban skeleton of public land and increasing mobility.

SADEV 94

SADEV 94 is a public-private partnership dedicated to the planning and development of the Val-de-Marne department and its towns. It manages several ZACs (mixed development zones) for some twenty towns, enabling it to propose land and office buildings on quality sites.

COPAC (Economic action observatory of the Val-de-Marne)

The COPAC was created in 1995 by the General Council of the Val-de-Marne, the prefecture, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Chamber of Trades and Crafts and the Medef in order to provide companies, economic decision makers, local governments and institutional organizations with better knowledge of the local economic fabric. The COPAC centralizes, processes and analyses the available economic and social data concerning the department.

SAF 94 (Land Action Syndicate)

SAF 94 helps local authorities optimise land costs by ensuring the initial financing of the acquisitions. The local authorities can thus offer companies solutions for establishing premises under optimized economic conditions.

ODIME 94 (Departmental corporate real-estate observatory)

Created by the Direction Départmentale de l’Équipement (Departmental public works department), the General Council of the Val-de-Marne and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris Val-de-Marne, the purpose of ODIME 94 is to maintain an in-depth watch over the real-estate market and develop information on the corporate real-estate potential in the department.

A decision-making aid

• Provide the corporate real-estate professionals and local governments with relevant information for analyzing the economic climate of the real-estate market.
• Collect, analyze and disseminate corporate real-estate information to support the strategic development choices of the department and parish territories.
• Enhance the potential for accommodating companies and promote the competitive advantages of the department.

Market analysis tools

• "The ODIME 94 indicators", six-monthly syntheses of the latest developments of the market and the corporate real-estate stock.
• Prospective annual studies on strategic themes for the development of the department, involving real-estate professionals, companies and local governments.
• Conferences that present the results of the studies to the corporate real-estate community.