Clasification Of Companies In Spain

SPANISH COMPANIES:

There is lot of criteria to classified companies. The most common are:

* Size: rated by the number of employees.
Big: more than 500 employees.
Medium: between 50 and500 employees.
Small: less than 50
The most common companies are SMEs (51%)

* Activity: rated about the sector in which they act.
Primary: agriculture, cattle farming, fishing. This tend tobe small companies.
Secondary: transform input to output. Construction and mining industry.
Third sector: They offer services to the customer: transport, turism, catering trades…

* Property:Private: different types: familiar companies, foreign companies, banks, insurance companies, non familiars, collective institutions.
Public: from the state.
Mixed: with the influence of thestate but private capital.

* Legal status:
Without legal status:
* Self-employed or individual companies: A person does an economic activity by himself. There´s no difference between hisassets and the company assets.
* Civil company: it is a contract between two or more people sharing money or assets with the result of sharing the benefits. It is a limited liability company.* Joint ownership: More than two people share the property of an asset. It is an unlimited liability company.

With legal status:
* Public limited company: the capital is divided in stocks,the shareholders has a piece of capital represented in stocks. The shareholders only have to pay for what they contribute. The minimum capital is 60.000€.
* Limited liability company: the capitalis not divided in stocks, it is divided in participations. The minimum capital is 3.000€.
* General and limited partnership: the capital is divided in stocks and a percentage of them must befrom the workers. It is a limited liability company.
* Cooperative association: It is an association of people who are joined to made a common activity. It is a non-profit-making organization.