Statistics in Focus. Foreign owned enterprises Account for almost 20% of the turnover generated in market services in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom.

Abstract

Main findings - based on pilot study results in market services for Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom: • Whilst foreign affiliates generated over 19% of total market services' turnover in 1996... they accounted for less than 1% of the total number of enterprises. • Distributive trades was the activity where foreign owned enterprises had the highest impact in terms of their presence and economic weight. • 8% of all persons employed in market services worked for a foreign affiliate. • Wholesale trade had the highest share of its workforce accounted for by foreign affiliates... this was particularly true for the wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, where 57% of all persons employed were working for a foreign enterprise. • Some 55% of the total number of persons employed by a foreign affiliate were working for an enterprise from outside the EU... two-thirds of which were working for an American enterprise. • Japanese enterprises accounted for 13% of the turnover generated by foreign owned enterprises... whilst having a 2% share of the number of persons employed.