Brexit is driving companies out of the U.K., and the Netherlands is raking in the corporate refugees.
About 250 companies are in talks with the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency to potentially relocate activities to the country, according to a statement published on Saturday. The candidates would join 42 companies that made the move last year, and the 18 early birds in 2017.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the largest Brexit wave is yet to come," Jeroen Nijland, who heads NFIA, said in a telephone interview. "It normally takes about six months to two years from the first conversation we have with a company before it makes a decision, and our pipeline is now bigger than in earlier years."