Nearly 100 international companies have moved to the Netherlands and 325
more are interested owing to uncertainty over Britain's exit from the
EU, Dutch officials have said.
Companies including financial data provider
Bloomberg and the European headquarters of the Discovery channel are
among those who have shifted recently.
Most
of those in the first wave "have urgent reasons, for example because of
a banking license or broadcasting rights to remain active in the EU",
the Dutch agency said.
The Dutch
remain in competition with France, Ireland, Germany and Belgium in
particular for the spoils of Brexit business, said the NFIA.
"The NFIA expects that the Brexit results will grow further in the coming months," it added.
"Brexit
remains bad news for the Netherlands, but with Brexit more companies
are going to choose our country in the coming years," the agency said.
Japanese
electronics giants Sony and Panasonic said several months ago that they
were moving their European headquarters across the North Sea to the
Netherlands.
In addition to
relocations by corporations, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), an EU
agency, has moved from London to Amsterdam as it could not legally
remain in a non-EU country.
Britain
is to leave the EU on October 31, with fears growing that it will crash
out without a divorce deal, causing huge disruption to trade and
transport ties.
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