In the ECB’s statistics, a firm – mostly small businesses, freelancers, and agriculture, and then usually as a
A businessman as defined in § 1 of the German Commercial Code (HGB) – in which the work is performed exclusively or predominantly by the owner of the business and his family. – Under German law, a banking business may not be operated in the legal form of a sole trader. In Germany, family businesses accounted for more than 2.3 million companies at the end of 2012, about seventy percent of all legal forms; their contribution to the national product was close to twelve percent. – The distinction from the family business is not clear in many publications. – See sole proprietorship, banking, private bank, private banker.
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