A dynamic employment basin

 

The Béthune area is a region that is reaching on the economic front. It is the district that is the most industrialised in the Nord-Pas de Calais with a 52 % working population (30,000 industrial jobs and about 5,000 industrial concerns, of services and business) and more than 10.000 jobs created in 15 years.
Thus, the industrial fibre has a great capacity to resist cyclical factors and accordingly presents a more stable context, thus more comforting for the suppliers and the sub-contractors. 
27 % of the population are less than 20 years old. About 24,000 pupils are schooled in 47 secondary establishments and 1,250 students in establishments for senior technicians.

 

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List of the companies having foreign capital
List of the main companies in the Béthune area with French investors

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The economy of the Béthune area

revolves around renowned institutional-leaders, and numerous international investors (FRANCAISE DE MECANIQUE, UGINE & ALZ, ROQUETTE FRERES, BRIDGESTONE FRANCE, GROUPE FAURECIA, GROUPE NORELEC, BOSAL, NORELEC, TKES UGO, BOSAL FRANCE, DRAKA COMTEQ (Alcaphone Cables France), FILARTOIS, SUCRERIE TEREOS, CTS (Tolmega), BEAUMARAIS- MC CAIN, GROUPE CHEMINEES PHILIPPE, PLASTIC OMNIUM) … in the midst of a dense SME-SMI fiber (SEMECA, COMANET, SNC DESQUENES, SIGMA KALON EURIDEP, DELIFRANCE, JOKEY FRANCE, CRODA CHOCQUES, ARDO VIOLAINES, MARINER, C2A-Prodware, IMPRIMERIE LEONCE DEPREZ, RLD NORD, LIDL, HUWER ASSAINISSEMENT, DEZELLUS, TCPA, JET'SAC, CARLIER PLASTIQUES, AQP, SCHENETADY EUROPE, GTI, SEFAR FYLTIS, STCN, DUCROCQ ET CATOIRE, VIBROMAT, STERIMA/STERILISATION MALYSSE, OVONOR, HALTON, BODYCOTE, PROMENS (Bonar), AXIPACK-CAROLEX, PROWELL, etc...).