Montréal Business Plan Writers

Greater Montréal is well positioned for business owners and entrepreneurs to thrive, especially considering the variety of industries, highly qualified work force and access to large international markets. With its diversified economy, Greater Montréal is globally recognized for its knowledge, innovation and creativity.

Nearly four million people (almost half of Québec’s population), live in Greater Montréal, which attracts a wide range of talent and foreign investors who are drawn by its quality of life and promising development.

The metropolitan Montréal area has made its mark in leading economic sectors such as aerospace, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and enhanced reality, life sciences and health technology, ICT (video games, visual effects, etc.), as well as transportation and logistics. The service sector remains the driving force for jobs, in areas ranging from health to insurance, finance, real estate and food services. There are many job opportunities in these key sectors, which are boosting Montréal’s drawing power and contributing to its global outreach. Source: Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montréal.

Montréal holds ample advantages for entrepreneurs and startups, which include direct access to the North American market and skilled labour, as well as an attractive tax regime, plus the lowest operating costs in North America amongst big cities, to name but a few. Moreover, the metropolitan region provides abundant opportunity for an ever-growing scene of startup companies. The 2018 report of the Global Startup Ecosystem ranks it among the most active in the world.

Whether you create a new business, acquire an existing operation, or relocate your existing company, the Montréal region is proving its development potential worldwide by distinguishing itself in global networks with the export of goods, services and data, as well as with foreign direct investments. The 2019 edition of Living in Montreal & Area Montréal cites Montréal as the seventh most globally connected city in North America and the third most international city in its economic region.

Just behind Toronto, Montréal ranks second in Canada in number of corporate head offices, with almost 400, which employ more than 42,000 people, including the big contributors of Québec’s economy such as Rio Tinto Alcan, Air Transat, Cirque du Soleil, Québecor, Saputo, SNC-Lavalin, Hydro-Québec and Bombardier. Source: Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montréal.

Montréal accounts for 35% of Quebec’s economic activity with a Gross Domestic Product of $131 million produced in 2017, according to the Official City Portal: Ville de Montréal. This cosmopolitan city has direct access to the North American market (460 million consumers within NAFTA), plus a cutting-edge infrastructures that makes it a hub for intermodal transportation by land, sea, road and railroad: two international airports; a major maritime port in eastern Canada (the world’s largest interior port); an integrated road network that is linked to major economic centres in North America (very competitive trucking rates and efficient cross-border traffic), and a railway network that extends over thousands of kilometres between Montréal and Vancouver.