Customer services in Hauts-de-France

We’re France’s No. 1 region for customer services. Leading CRM specialists—Webhelp, Majorel, Comdata, Armatis, Teleperformance and more—already have operations here, and conditions are ideal for your business, too. Choose a Hauts-de-France location for excellent recruitment potential, competitively priced real estate that meets your needs, and easy access to decision-making centers in Paris, Brussels and London.

Customer services in Hauts-de-France

We’re France’s No. 1 region for customer services. Leading CRM specialists—Webhelp, Majorel, Comdata, Armatis, Teleperformance and more—already have operations here, and conditions are ideal for your business, too. Choose a Hauts-de-France location for excellent recruitment potential, competitively priced real estate that meets your needs, and easy access to decision-making centers in Paris, Brussels and London.

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France’s booming customer services market

Fast facts

In 2019, the French contact center market grew to €2.94bn, a 6.1% rise over the previous year1. Growth was buoyed by services performed and delivered within France, up 2.5% year on year.

1 According to a 2020 report by EY and SP2C, a trade group of leading French CRM providers.

French market covered primarily by providers in France

A large majority of CRM providers serving the French market are still located in France.

Sales generated on the French market by location

France North Africa Nearshore Other
53.7 % 31.9 % 9.4 % 5 %

Expert insights from an interview with SP2C President Patrick Dubreil:

“The steady growth in the French customer services market over the past four years can be credited to at least three factors.”

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Unrivalled concentration of players in customer services

Hauts-de-France was a pioneer in outsourced customer services, and today we’re home to more contact centers than any other French region, with:

  • some 70 contact centers and
  • nearly 10,000 jobs

Home to leading French contact centers

France’s 5 biggest contacts centers by sales have operations in Hauts-de-France.

2020 rankings of customer service providers

2019 Rank 2020 Rank Provider Present in HDF Founded in
1 1 Webhelp France yes 2000
2 2 Majorel yes 1996
3 3 Comdata yes 1987
4 4 Sitel Group yes 1998
7 5 Teleperformance yes 1978
6 6 Intelcia Group 2000
5 7 Armatis yes 1989
8 8 BlueLink 1992
9 9 Coriolis Service yes 1999
n/a 10 Euro CRM France 2000

Source: SP2C

Where we stand in the French customer services landscape

Hauts-de-France plays a leading role in the French contact center market.

Some 29% of French players with outsourced CRM have chosen Hauts-de-France as the command center for their customer satisfaction and loyalty strategy.

CRM workforce in France by region

Distribution of Contact Centers in France

Source: SP2C 2019

In-house customer service operations in Hauts-de-France

A number of prominent French and global companies have set up their own customer service centers in our region, including:

Which makes Hauts-de-France a leading French destination for in-house CRM as well, with

  • over 200 in-house customer relations centers
  • 17,000 jobs

Synergies between the customer services industry and Hauts-de-France

  • What is the region’s strategy for boosting the CRM sector?
  •  What role do today’s contact centers play in local economies in Hauts-de-France?
  • What trends are shaping the sector’s future?

Get answers to these questions in our interview with NFI Chief Executive Officer Yann Pitollet and Project Director Olivier Charras.

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