SMEs financing needs France 2015-2016

This statistic presents the credit needs of French small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to finance their investments in September 2015 and in January 2016, by type of credit. In January 2016, almost 70 percent of SME managers declared that they needed financing to replace or maintain their operations.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) credit needs to finance their investments in France in September 2015 and in January 2016, by type of credit

Characteristic	September 2015	January 2016
Credits for replacement or maintenance investments for operations (materials, premises, etc.)	61%	67%
Credits for investment in equipment (vehicles, computers, etc.)	39%	50%
Credits for development acquisitions (purchases, company mergers, etc.)	26%	18%
Credits for innovation investments (technologies, processes, etc.)	25%	23%
Other types of credits	1%	1%
No answer	1%	1%

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Release date

January 2015

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Region

France

Survey time period

September 2015 to January 2016

Number of respondents

402 respondents

Special properties

managers of French companies with 10 to 500 employees

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The question was formulated by the source as follows: "De quels types de crédits avez-vous besoin pour financer vos investissements ?»

Data relating to September 2015 is present in the report "Barometre sur le financement et l'acces au credit des PME, Wave 26 ".

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