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Companies by size and classification:
Companies are classified according to the number of employees and the type of structure:
- Microenterprises: from 2 to 10 workers.
- Small companies: from 11 to 49 workers.
- Medium-sized companies: from 50 to 250 workers.
- Large companies: more than 250 workers.
Types of companies
There are three basic types Limited Partnership, General Partnership and Civil Partnership, below.
There are three other types based on the capital they start or work with Private, Public or Mixed.
- Civil Partnership. 2 partners.
- General Partnership. 2 partners.
- Reciprocal guarantee society. Capital 10,000,000 Dlls, 150 partners.
- Limited Partnership. 2 partners.
- Limited Liability Company. Capital 3,000 Dlls.
- Individual Entrepreneur (self-employed).
- Limited Liability Entrepreneur.
- Community of goods. Minimum 2 partners.
- Labor Limited Liability Company. Capital 3,000 Dlls, 2 partners.
- Labor Limited Liability Company. Capital 60,000 Dlls, 2 partners.
- Cooperative society Amount fixed in the bylaws.
- Limited partnership of successive formation.
- New company limited partnership. Capital 3,000 Dlls, 5 partners.
- Corporation. Capital 5,000 Dlls.
- Limited partnership by shares. Capital 60,000 Dlls, 2 partners.
- Limited to the capital contributed.
- Associated work cooperative society.
- Professional societies.
- Agricultural transformation society. 3 partners.
- Economic interest grouping. 2 partners.
Before selecting the type of company you are going to incorporate, get advice from an expert in business matters, since it is a very important decision to make, creating the company is easier than dissolving it.
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