● Nexfield / Countries / France
B2B prospect lists for France.
Researched lists of French companies that should be buying what you sell, from Île-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to Occitanie, Brittany, Hauts-de-France and the overseas regions. Industrial, energy, pharma and food, classified by priority, each with a reason to call. Delivered as Excel, usually within the hour on working days.
01 The French market
Thirteen metropolitan regions and five overseas
Metropolitan France has 13 regions: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, Normandy, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, La Réunion and Mayotte are the five overseas regions. A prospect list can be scoped to one region, a group of départements or the whole country, overseas included.
Industrial and manufacturing: aerospace, equipment and vehicles
Industry, which INSEE defines as manufacturing, mining, energy, water and waste, employed 3,196,103 salaried staff in metropolitan France at the end of June 2026 (seasonally adjusted). Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes had 505,186, Île-de-France 441,067, Grand Est 299,256 and Hauts-de-France 285,694. Electrical, electronic and machinery manufacturing employed 417,904, led by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (83,405) and Île-de-France (66,273). Transport equipment employed 358,639, with Île-de-France (65,847) and Occitanie (52,313) ahead. Urssaf counts 47,243 private-sector aerospace employees in Occitanie at the end of 2025, including 28,767 in Toulouse and 10,964 in Blagnac, plus 10,065 in Marignane in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Energy and environmental technology: nuclear, hydro, wind and solar
RTE, the transmission system operator, reports that metropolitan France produced 547.5 TWh of electricity in 2025, of which 95.2% was low-carbon. Nuclear power supplied 373.0 TWh (68.1%), hydropower 62.4 TWh, onshore wind 43.9 TWh, solar 32.9 TWh and offshore wind 5.7 TWh, while fossil-fuel plants produced 18.7 TWh. Solar capacity reached 30.4 GW after 5.9 GW was added during the year, and offshore wind capacity reached 1.9 GW, with farms off Saint-Nazaire, Fécamp, Saint-Brieuc and the islands of Yeu and Noirmoutier. Net exports came to 92.3 TWh, 17% of production.
Pharma and life sciences: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Île-de-France
Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 87,833 private-sector staff in metropolitan France at the end of 2025, according to Urssaf. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes had 18,762, Île-de-France 16,615, Normandy 10,110 and Centre-Val de Loire 9,365. Locally, Marcy-l'Étoile near Lyon, Val-de-Reuil in Normandy and Chartres each had more than 1,900 pharmaceutical employees.
Food and agriculture: Brittany, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Pays de la Loire
Food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing employed 635,797 salaried staff in metropolitan France at the end of June 2026 (INSEE). Brittany had the most, at 76,495, followed by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (73,665) and Pays de la Loire (68,367). In meat processing, Le Mené, Quimperlé and Vitré in Brittany each counted more than 1,100 employees at the end of 2025 (Urssaf).
How a French list is built
Choose your unit, describe what you sell and name the regions you want covered, or the whole country. Nexfield works through all 56 sub-sectors of your unit and returns only companies that are probable buyers, never your competitors. Each row comes with region, city, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company belongs on your list.
02 Six sector units · 4 live, 2 launching soon
Choose the sector you sell into.
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UNIT 01
Industrial &
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UNIT 02
Energy &
Environmental TechView unit -
UNIT 03
Pharma &
Life SciencesView unit -
UNIT 04
Food &
AgricultureView unit -
UNIT 05
Construction &
Building MaterialsComing soon · not yet orderable -
UNIT 06
Logistics &
TransportComing soon · not yet orderable
Looking for one sector? Our industry pages include a section on France: manufacturing companies, energy companies, pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers.
Packages — choose your scope
A sample of the real list
Delivered within 1h€99
One country, fully mapped
Delivered within 1h€950
Two countries
Delivered within 1h€1,500
Three countries
Delivered within 1h€2,000
All prices exclude VAT.
- Customers in the Netherlands: 21% Dutch VAT (BTW).
- Businesses in other EU countries with a valid VAT number: 0%, VAT reverse-charged.
- Businesses outside the EU, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Norway: 0% Dutch VAT.
French business customers in metropolitan France and Corsica: 0% Dutch VAT. The VAT is reverse-charged to you (btw verlegd / autoliquidation), so you account for French VAT in your own return; your VAT number is shown on the invoice. Guadeloupe, Martinique, La Réunion, French Guiana and Mayotte are outside the EU VAT area, so they are invoiced like non-EU customers: 0% Dutch VAT.
03 Questions
Questions about French lists.
One row per company: company name, country, region, city, sector, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company is a probable buyer of what you sell. You choose the regions, including overseas to cover, or take the whole of France. Delivered as an Excel file with filters on every column.
The four live units: industrial and manufacturing, energy and environmental tech, pharma and life sciences, and food and agriculture. In France that typically means aerospace, equipment and vehicles, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar, pharma in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Île-de-France, and food in Brittany, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Pays de la Loire. Construction and logistics are launching soon.
The Test is a sample of the real list: about 8 to 12 highly matched companies in France, in the same Excel format as a full order, for one fixed price of €99 with no subscription. If it fits, the Local package (€950) maps the rest of the country.
The list is about companies, not people: every entry is researched by our AI and confirmed in public sources, and it contains no personal contact details and no email addresses. You remain responsible for how you contact the companies, as set out in section 8 of our terms and conditions.
Businesses in France with a valid VAT number pay 0% Dutch VAT: the VAT is reverse-charged. Prices are always shown excluding VAT.
04 Who we are
An AI company with engineering roots.
Nexfield is an AI company. Our sector-specialist AI works through the 56 sub-sectors of your unit, finds the companies that should be buying what you sell, classifies and prioritises them, and reviews its own output against your description before anything is delivered.
Nexfield was founded by a chemical engineer with years in technical sales to the process industry. That is why the reasoning on every list follows how industrial buying actually works, rather than generic company data.
We work business-to-business only: one order, one fixed price, no retainer, no contract, no minimum. Every order is covered by our terms and conditions.
Company details
- Trading name
- Nexfield
- Legal entity
- Valck Engine
- Based in
- Roermond, the Netherlands
- Chamber of Commerce (KvK)
- 42136717
- VAT ID
- NL005525568B18
Contact
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