SME-Statistics

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SME-Statistics

• Registering of small and medium enterprises or
  counting of affiliates
• Eurostat Unit D1

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Quantitative Criteria for the definition of SME
250 Employees
50 Million Euro turnover
And/or
Liabilities
Assets
balance sheet total of 43 Million Euro
43.000.000 43.000.000
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Qualitative Criteria And the enterprise must be
independent That means No other enterprise
must own directly or indirectly a share of voting
rights, which is bigger then 25
Enterprise 2
lt 25
Enterprise 1
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The German definition for Mittelstand means only
enterprises where the owner or members of the
owner family also manage the enterprise. This
avoids the Principal Agent problem. The owner
knows his enterprise from inside.
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Difference between SME and Affiliate In an
enterprise which is owned by private Investors
decisions are different from an enterprise that
is owned by a group
Type 3
Type 1
Type 2
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Enterprise 1 1000
Holding
Legal unit 1200
Legal unit 2200
Legal unit 3200
Legal unit 4200
Legal unit 5200
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Source Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn
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Share of SME in the qualitative sense ordered by
legal form
Source Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn