Business Establishment

Foreign investment directly in Canada has almost doubled since 1990, reaching 357 billion Canadian dollars in 2003. The largest part coming from the United States, but new investors also come from all countries.

Why should I invest in the Maple Region?

The Maple Region offers a dynamic and innovative environment that favors business establishment and development. Destined to become a privileged entry point for businesses looking for competent staff, the Maple Region counts over 200 manufacturing companies offering jobs to almost 5 000 workers.

The Maple region is a good place for business establishment and operation as well as for investment because of its strategic location, its entrepreneurial culture, its staff and its transportation network.

10 good reasons to invest in the Maple Region : 

1. A geographic position that facilitates access to different markets and to raw materials
   The Maple Region is located in the Centre-du-Québec region which greatly facilitates access to different markets and to raw materials.
   Businesses in the Maple Region have access, in a range of 1 000 km, to a market of over 110 million consumers from Quebec, Canada and the United States because truckers have easy access to the important American and Canadian industrial centers via an extensive and well structured transportation network.
   
   
2. Entrepreneurial dynamism
   The entrepreneurial dynamism on the territory of the Maple Region is revealed by an exceptional proportion of manufacturing companies in comparison to the number of residents in the territory. This ratio is the highest in the Quebec manufacturing industry.
   
   
3. Qualified and committed staff
   Available and qualified in the processing industry, the personnel in the region have demonstrated their commitment and the how much they take to heart the success of their employers.
   Work relations are analogous to partnership. These last years, a new economic reality instigated businesses and workers of the region to closely collaborate in their work relations.
   
   
4. A Manufacturing Culture
   The presence of a great number of manufacturers in the territory has tinted over the last decades the behavior and attitude of citizens in the Region. Earning a living in the manufacturing sector and to rub shoulders with members of families working in small and medium businesses is part of the everyday life of workers in this Region.
   
   
5. Very Competitive Operational Costs
   Operational costs are among the lowest in America. The cost of energy especially the cost of electricity, the cost of construction of industrial buildings and salaries are very competitive. According to KPMG, Canada in its entirety has operational costs that are below 11% to those in the United States and the lowest cost among the G7 countries.
   
   
6. Enviable quality of life
   Today, combining city and country is a real luxury that is accessible to everyone in the Maple Region. This region offers the possibility to have a lifestyle that combines closeness to nature with access to all services for the whole family.
   
   
7. Dynamic Economy – Critical mass of businesses
   Globally, the Maple Region displays a remarkable economic vigor with a high job rate and an unemployment rate that is among the lowest in Quebec. The daily contribution of workers from outside the Region and a great number of companies give testimony. The Maple Region has an exceptionally diversified and well developed manufacturing structure in Quebec representing a mass of businesses that permit uncommon synergy.
   
   
8. Access to the American market thanks to free trade and to favorable exchange rates
   Businesses in the Region benefit from the free trade agreement between Canada and the United States as well as the North American free trade agreement. Businesses in Quebec ship over 80% of their exportations to the United States.
   The exchange rate with the American dollar favors exportation and greatly amplifies operations of companies within the Maple Territory on the American market.
   Canadian products and services are in demand everywhere around the globe. The “Made in Canada” tag is highly respected.
   
   
9. Public services that are attentive to investment
   The Centre local de développement de l’Érable and the municipalities keep up to date necessary and pertinent data giving easy, immediate and accessible access to information for prompt decision taking. In addition, public management of industrial buildings and the management of public services in the industrial sector are directed towards making investment easy.
   
10. Developped industrial poles
    The 200 manufacturers are united within organized industrial clusters. The synergy instigated by this critical mass of businesses within the same field greatly benefits companies and market participants that gravitate within the operations of the cluster. The industry of environment technologies – equipment manufacturers in the field of recovery and recycling and equipment makers for special vehicles, particularly marine, are two clusters that are in priority for the economic development of the Maple Region. In fact, Princeville homes the most important manufacturing unit for pleasure boats in Canada.