A place where everything is possible.
Together with the businesses in the Jakobstad region and the five municipalities that jointly own Concordia, we create vitality, development and growth. We protect the region’s interests at different levels, publish regional statistics, conduct studies, and keep track of our region’s state and development. Idea generation, co-operation and networking are important elements in the way we do things.
In order to continue developing as a region, we need external impulses. We have both national and international contacts. Concordia’s projects produce development funds for the entire region and create conditions and a fertile ground for a thriving, attractive, and competitive region. What’s more, we think as one. What benefits the region, benefits us all.
Maybe your idea is the next step in our regional development?
The home of quality.
In the Jakobstad region we may not always have the lowest prices on products and services, but we keep our promises ant the quality is always on point. And when we work together here at home and out in the world you can always count on this.
The Pietarsaari Jakobstad region has a strong global export market and our companies have an annual export value ~ 2 billion €, we are almost 50 000 inhabitants, over 6 500 companies and more than 22 000 workplaces in a diversified field of enterprises. We’ve got both urban and rural living and you are never more than half an hour commuting-distance from services as well as having nature and the archipelago always nearby. Quality of life in a nutshell!
We are a bilingual part of Finland and inhabitants here speaking both Swedish and Finnish, and thanks to our export companies a lot of other languages is spoken, too. Here is a link to the larger companies for finding jobs or possibilities for open applications.
In the Jakobstad region business sector you can find branches from food, machinery and equipment, paper, lyxury yachts and everyday boating through plastic and rubber to metal and abrasives. This also builds a diversified need for different kinds of services, ICT and subcontracting. And naturally jobs in all the services for 50 000 inhabitants in private and public sector. Both vocational skills and higher education is needed.
From the region it´s no more than an hour by plane to metropolises and by train you will be in Helsinki in three hours.
Concordia is a regional development company owned by five municipalities on the West-Coast of Finland. Our services includes recruitment coordination, regional development, business development and start-ups, project management and of course regional marketing and branding.
Statistics
49 864
Inhabitants
22 000
Workplaces
2000
New Workplaces in next 2 years
6 800
Enterprises
~ 2 bn €
Annual export value
News from regional development
‘Everything we need is right here, including helpful people and pristine nature,’ Says Emebet Wache Meet Emebet Wache, an Ethiopian practical nurse who moved to the Jakobstad region in 2018. Emebet opens
“I love the space and that it’s quiet here. I don’t like the hustle and bustle of a big city,” says Albert Kabasu. Meet Congolese Albert Kabasu, Ess-Ma technician and
‘Internationally minded people and plenty of work opportunities: it’s easy to build a life here,’ Says Don Duma Meet Don Duma, a South African IT and business specialist who moved
‘I was waiting for the honeymoon period to end. But as time went on, I realised I just really love it here,’ says Julia Capozza Meet Julia Capozza, an American
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