Agrifood industry

Benefiting from excellent natural and climatic conditions, Normandy is logically one of France's major agricultural regions. Crop cultivation and livestock breeding supply the food processing industry, the region's main activity being dairy products. As the region's first industrial employment sector (with 36,000 salaried workers), the agrifood industry represents 14% of Normandy's industrial employment market. Not forgetting Normandy's apple orchards providing 60% of France's total cider apple production!

Normandial, a 58ha agrifood industrial zone on the Colombelles plateau, only 5 minutes from Caen, is an excellent example of Caen la mer's effort to concentrate specialised businesses together, hence providing improved mutual links close to fresh food supply and storage facilities.