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139. what is a "large" corporation though?

Mon Jan 18, 2016, 05:43 AM

Jan 2016

The local grocery store, for example. To me that is a pretty big business all by itself. But one of them is owned by this guy who owns maybe a dozen stores. Is that a large corporation?

Even some of the large corporations...Well, the local KFC, I believe, is locally owned. So is the local ford dealership - for a couple of examples.

Also, I found some data about employment
http://www.bls.gov/web/cewbd/table_f.txt

they have nine size classes
1-4 - 4.9% (55.6%)
5-9 - 5.5% (19.2%)
10-19 - 7.1% (12.1%)
20-49 - 10.6% (8%)
50-99 - 7.9% (2.6%)
100-249 - 10.2% (1.5%)
250-499 - 7.2% (0.5%)
500-1,000 - 7% (0.2%)
1,000 or more - 39.5% (0.2%)

Small businesses (as I would call them) are 75% of all businesses, but they only account for 10% of all employment.

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