LYON, FRANCE

OVERVIEW OF LYON

POWERFUL

Capital of the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Region

.7,7 million inhabitants (more than 13 countries in EU)

2nd french metropolis

2nd business center after Paris La Défense

1,3 million inhabitants (+5% in 5 years)

LYON

• 1 hour from the Alpes

• 2 hours from Mediterranean Sea

• Less than 30 minutes from

vineyards (Beaujolais and Rhône

Valley)

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport 115 direct destinations

8,7 million passengers in 2015

65% of international traffic

More than

180 million

potential consumers at less than

one day of trip

3 TGV stations

Lyon Part-Dieu 45 TGV per day to Paris

Lyon-Perrache & Lyon-Saint Exupéry

Rhin-Rhône direct line : Lyon-Francfurt in 5h45

Lyon-Barcelona direct line in 3h45

Lyon-Turin-Milan after 2020

Lyon-London by Eurostar in 4h47

Rhônexpress

Linking the Airport with the city center

Motorway junction of 6 highways A7, A6, A46, A43, A42, A89

CONNECTED

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Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière-

The Pink Tower, Vieux Lyon-

The roman amphitheater, Vieux Lyon-

‘Hôtel-Dieu’, 10th century hospital-

View from the ‘Saône’ River-

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Lyon is the second largest Renaissance city after

Venice

Part of the UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE since

1998

1 site: Vieux Lyon (Old Lyon)

• 2000 years of History

• Renaissance district

• Abundant Heritage

Part of UNESCO : • Fourvière Hill

• The Old City

• A Part of the Presqu’Île (Peninsula)

• 200 « traboules », narrow cobbled

alleyways, a curious caracteristic of

Lyon

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HISTORIC

LIVELY & ARTISTIC

• Musée des Confluences • 1 M visitors since December 2014

• Festival of Lights • Past Heritage of the City for 150 Years

• Over 3 Million Visitors during 4 Days

• Museum of Fine Arts • The Little Louvre

• Museum of Contemporary Arts • 200,000 visitors per year

• The Biennal of Contemporary Art • 200,000 spectators

• Nuits Sonores • Electronic Music Festival – 130,000 spectators

• Les Nuits de Fourvière • Performing Arts Festival – 160,000 spectators

• Lyon National Orchestra

Lyon is the birthplace of

cinema! • Lumière Film Festival • 80,000 spectators

• Lumière Institute of cinema

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French Capital of Gastronomy Famous chefs: Paul Bocuse, Georges Blanc, Christian Têtedoie,

Pierre Orsi, Guy Lassausaie, Mathieu Viannay…

World renowned vineyards: Beaujolais, Côte du Rhône…

4,300 restaurants and bouchons 14 Michelin starred restaurants

SIRHA World Hospitality and Food Service Event Internationally renowned trade show

2,900 exhibitors in 2013 – 19,000 chefs

Over 185,000 visitors including 23,000 from abroad

(138 countries)

Cité de la Gastronomie By 2018, inside a remarkable building: Hôtel-Dieu

Exhibitions, Conferences, Shows, Cooking workshops…

3 ambitions: Exploration, Innovation & Transmission

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GOURMET

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SUCCESSFULL

Real Estate 1,256 M€ invested in Lyon

tertiary real estate market in 2015

ATTRACTIVE

Investments 93 new investments in 2015

1839 jobs created A new record!

TRENDS IN SET-UP AND JOBS WITHIN 3 YEARS SINCE 2006

Source : Why Invest in Lyon?, 2016, EY & JLL

Source : Aderly

MAJOR URBAN PROJECTS PREPARING THE FUTURE

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AMBITIOUS

Lyon Part-Dieu 2nd French business center

Lyon Confluence extension of a sustainable and

balanced city center

Biodistrict Gerland symbol of the Health and

Biotechnologies strategy Carré de Soie a plural, fertile and

renewed place

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Digital

42,000 JOBS and 7,000 companies

HUB IN FRANCE

50,000 JOBS

Clean-Tech

Energy, Transports, Chemistry / Material

3 MAIN SECTORS

INNOVATIVE

Life Sciences

Vaccine manufacturing facility

More than 60,000 Jobs in the HEALTH SECTOR, of which 35,000 jobs in the private sectors (+ 6% in 5 years)

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CLINICAL TRIALS EACH YEARS

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3 SECTORS AS DRIVING FORCE OF LYON’S ECONOMY

20 universities, elite graduate schools and institutes

in Lyon and Saint-Etienne

EM Lyon ranked 8th best European Business School

IAE Lyon Business Administration School ranked 10th in France

575 M€ in funding within the framework of the Campus Plan

1 PRES 2013

1 Major university hub after Paris

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130,000

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13,000

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50 M€ invested By NEDO Japonese New

Energy and Industrial

Technology Development

Organization

200 M€ invested By private and public

partners

to fund main projects

between 2012 and 2016

Strengthen territorial

actors’ innovation

capacity

Preserve energy

resources, manage

consumption

Manage, anticipate,

regulate trafic flows

and invent new

ways of planning

the city

Facilitate urban life

by developing new

services

LYON THE SMART CITY OF TOMORROW !

#1 SMART & CONNECTED CITY IN FRANCE

Combining

economic growth

and

SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT

SMART

BRANDED

Creation of Lyon’s territorial marketing programme

in 2007

• 13 institutional founding partners

• 16 private partners

An ecosystem of 29 supporters

► Objective: reinforce the appeal and reach of Lyon on an

international scale

Exceptional result: ONLYLYON in action