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103,000
Floridians speak French at home
After Quebec, Florida is home to the second largest French-speaking community in North America.
Source : SelectFlorida , Canada
Canada and Quebec
Canada is Florida’s second largest foreign investor, ahead of France, and its largest source of international visitors. It is the densest bridge in Florida’s French-speaking economy.
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300+
Canadian-owned companies in Florida
across more than 500 branch locations.
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54,000
jobs supported by Canadian-owned affiliates
more than 15% of all foreign-investment employment in the state.
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$11.1bn
in Florida–Canada merchandise trade (2022)
$5.3bn of exports, Florida’s 2nd market, and $5.8bn of imports.
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2nd
largest foreign direct investor in Florida (2020)
$14.5bn in gross property, plant and equipment.
Source : SelectFlorida , Canada
France
France is the state’s fourth largest foreign investor and its second largest European one. The groups present here concentrate in aerospace, industry and services.
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200+
French-owned companies in Florida
across more than 350 branch locations.
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37,000
jobs supported by French-owned affiliates (2020)
in Florida.
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$3.7bn
in Florida–France merchandise trade (2022)
$601m of exports, $3.107bn of imports.
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4th
largest foreign direct investor in Florida (2020)
$8.8bn in gross property, plant and equipment.
Source : SelectFlorida , France
These figures cover the whole of Florida and, unless stated otherwise, foreign-owned companies. They measure neither French Executive Network’s audience nor the number of French-speaking businesses in Central Florida.
Why this page exists
A young association is tempted to announce its own size. French Executive Network does not: it has no measurable audience yet, and an inflated number is expensive to whoever advances it.
What it can do is show that the link it serves exists and is measured by an official source. That is what this page is for.
What these figures do not say
They cover the whole of Florida and French-owned companies. None can be cut down to the Central Florida perimeter without becoming false, and none counts French speakers: a Belgian restaurateur in Winter Park is not in them, an industrial site owned from Paris is.
They justify that a French-speaking network makes sense in Florida. They measure neither French Executive Network’s audience, nor the size of its community, nor the number of businesses in its territory.
What about Central Florida?
The Orlando–Space Coast corridor has no equivalent public measurement, and French Executive Network will not produce an estimate of one. Per-city counts will appear on the region map once the directory holds genuinely claimed listings, counted, not estimated.
Updating
These figures carry a year. When SelectFlorida publishes a new edition, the value, the year and the retrieval date are updated together. A 2020 figure presented as current is false data, even if it was once true.