Number of companies

28,478 firms, including 8,782 small companies

• MANUFACTURING – CONSTRUCTION

6,000 manufacturing companies.
20% of the working population in Calvados occupy jobs in manufacturing.
Importance of the 3 main industrial sectors in Calvados in terms of workforce :

• Motor parts : 10.5%
• Motor industry : 8.5%
• Electronic components : 6.9%

• SERVICES - BUSINESSES

7,891 commercial companies (in 2002)
12,227 non-financial services companies
Retailing and services for individual customers are particularly well developed.

• AGRICULTURE
  
  7,200 farms, with 445,000 hectares of agricultural land in use, representing 18,000 employees.
  The net income from farming in Calvados is 100 million euros.
  NB arable yields are higher than the French national average.
   
  
• FISHERIES

211 fishing trawlers representing 864 trawlermen
Total marine catches worth 37 million euros.

Port-en-Bessin : Normandy’s largest fishing port and France’s 7 th largest fishing port, home to the COPEPORT producers’ organization and the IFREMER marine research institute.