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Since the early ’90s, the number of companies having their headquarters in the province of Namur has increased an average of 350 units per year. Over 60% of them are located in the borough of  In general and especially in the southern districts, the fabric is made of Namur productive activities rather “labor intensive”, which is due to the structure of their economy heavily oriented toward non-market service industries (education, health care) and secondary (including construction), some are particularly labor intensive. For its part, the borough of Namur is highly specialized in service industries more capital intensive “(financial, real estate, renting, business services). In addition, the internationalization of the shareholding of companies in Namur also tends to guide the development of the productive activities towards higher value added.
Business investment grew strongly in 1995-2001. This new dynamism is part of a broader trend seen in Wallonia and Belgium. To underline its particularly strong in the district of Namur.
The analysis of the evolution of gross domestic product confirmed all other indicators: the district of Namur account for more than 70% of the GDP of the province, one of Dinant for a little under 19% and Philippeville “sailing “around 10%.

As we examine the geographical orientation of exports Namur (situation in 2002 – amounts in millions €), we see that our export business, primarily, to the four neighboring countries, France topping (373.7 million), followed by the Netherlands Netherlands (175 million), Germany (190.9 million) and the United Kingdom (167.3 million). Since 1998, exports to other Member States of the European Union have increased substantially (411.9 million in 2002).