Types of Businesses and Business Ownerships
Business
Services : Provides people with resources to fulfill their needs or wants.
Merchandising : Business of buying finished products and reselling them.
Manufacturing : Using components, parts or raw materials to make finished products.
E-Commerce: Buying and selling goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data through WiFi.
Non-Profit : Provide consumers with the things that they need in order to survive.
Business Ownerships
Sole Proprietorship : Simplest form of business (one individual ownership)
Partnership : two or more parties coming together to form a business
Corporation : exists separately but still functions the same as other businesses
Franchise : an expansion of business allowed from the side of the owner/franchiser
Co-operative : Managed by members and employees; everyone is active in roles of management
Examples
Rogers
Amazon
McDonald's
Costco
Starbucks
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