Val d’Europe, a booming area

Val d’Europe is located on the far-eastern edge of Marne-la-Vallée. With the boom it is currently experiencing, Val d’Europe boasts numerous assets. Its ongoing growth makes it an ideal location for any company, whatever its business sector. Whenever a company wishes to settle in Val d’Europe, it will primarily get in touch with two agencies: EPAMARNE/EPAFRANCE which manages the overall Marne-la-Vallée area, and the Val d’Europe New Town Association (SAN), whose mission is to develop this part of the territory.

The CEVE, a determination to be ambassadors for Marne-la-Vallée

The Val d’Europe Business Leaders Club (CEVE) was founded two and a half years ago. The initiators behind this creation were the SAN, as well as a few business leaders who had already banded together and who were seeking a virtual venue where they could share in the pleasure of not only being in the area, but also of being in a position to solve in a concerted fashion any problems that might come up.

The CEVE’s mission is to act as area ambassador with businesses located outside Marne-la-Vallée. Every CEVE member is in touch with people outside Val d’Europe, either established in Ile-de-France, or elsewhere in France and seeking to get established in Ile-de-France. In such cases, the CEVE’s role is to encourage such contacts to come and settle in Val d’Europe.

Val d’Europe is betting on innovation by attracting high tech companies. This does not however mean that traditional production companies are left out. Nowadays, innovation represents a significant part of industry. That is why the CEVE is doing its utmost to develop Val d’Europe in that way.

The CEVE has several long-term objectives. First of all, it pursues a participatory approach, not only to economic life in Val d’Europe, but also to economic life throughout the department of Seine-et-Marne. The CEVE currently brings together 100 members out of the more than 1,000 companies that make up Val d’Europe. Accordingly, CEVE’s second goal is to gain the membership of 50% of those companies over the coming decade.