Industry Breakdown of Companies
in France

Explore more than 6,512,121 France-based companies available in the HitHorizons database and see top industries and biggest players with highest sales and number of employees.

Current Country: France 6,512,121 (14.6%)
Largest Country: United Kingdom 6,982,522 (15.7%)
Total Number of Companies in Europe 44,495,561

According to our database, a total of more than 6,512,121 businesses are registered in France . That represents 14.64% of all companies available in the HitHorizons database. These France-based companies have a share of 7.13% of all sales generated by EU-based businesses and employ 5.68% of all EU employees.

France: TOP Industries

According to our database, the industry with the highest number of companies registered is Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (2,713,459 companies in total), followed by Services (2,103,955) and Retail Trade (567,058).

This TOP 10 list was generated automatically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and get more data and insights on specific countries, industries, or segments with HitHorizons Screener.

France: TOP Industries 6,512,121 registered companies

  Industry, Number of Companies Number of
Companies
Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate 2,713,459 41.7% 2,713,459
Services 2,103,955 32.3% 2,103,955
Retail Trade 567,058 8.7% 567,058
Construction 356,345 5.5% 356,345
Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing 252,199 3.9% 252,199
Wholesale Trade 154,651 2.4% 154,651
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services 151,297 2.3% 151,297
Manufacturing 143,174 2.2% 143,174
Public Sector 48,220 0.7% 48,220
Unknown industry 20,261 0.3% 20,261
Mining 1,502 0.0% 1,502

France: Breakdown of Companies by SIC Code

The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC Code) is used to assign companies to specific industries. According to our database, the top 3 SIC Codes for France are Real property lessor (30.93%), Membership organization (7.81%) and Amusement/recreation services (5%).

This breakdown was generated automarically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and find companies leading within individual SIC Codes, SIC Code distribution among individual countries, or SIC Code breakdowns within other industries using HitHorizons Screener.

France: Breakdown of Companies by SIC Code 6,512,121 registered companies

France: TOP 10 Companies with Highest Sales

According to our database, companies registered in the France generated € 5,841,568,566,833 in sales, which represents 7.13% of all sales generated by companies available in the HitHorizons database.

This TOP 10 list of companies operating in France was generated automatically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and get more data and insights on specific countries, industries, or segments with HitHorizons Screener.

France: TOP 10 Companies with Highest Sales 6,512,121 registered companies

  Company Name, Sales & Share Sales
1. ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE € 87.13B 1.49% € 87.13B
2. STELLANTIS AUTO SAS € 62.69B 1.07% € 62.69B
3. CMA CGM € 50.6B 0.87% € 50.6B
4. AIRBUS € 45.72B 0.78% € 45.72B
5. RENAULT SAS € 38.74B 0.66% € 38.74B
6. ENGIE € 36.22B 0.62% € 36.22B
7. TOTALENERGIES RAFFINAGE FRANCE € 30.14B 0.52% € 30.14B
8. ESSO SOCIETE ANONYME FRANCAISE € 24.07B 0.41% € 24.07B
9. CSF € 22.78B 0.39% € 22.78B
10. ORANGE € 22.49B 0.38% € 22.49B
Total Sales of the TOP 10 Companies € 420.6B

France: Top 10 Companies with Highest Number of Employees

According to our database, companies registered in the UK employ 21,965,557 people, which represents 5.68% of all people employed by companies available in the HitHorizons database. The company with the highest number of employees is AIR FRANCE - KLM (73,000), followed by ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (62,035) and ORANGE (61,941).

This TOP 10 list of companies with the highest number of employees was generated automatically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and get more data and insights on specific countries, industries, or segments with HitHorizons Screener.

France: Top 10 Companies with Highest Number of Employees 6,512,121 registered companies

  Company Name, Employees & Share Number of Employees
1. AIR FRANCE - KLM 73,000 0.33% 73,000
2. ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE 62,035 0.28% 62,035
3. ORANGE 61,941 0.28% 61,941
4. ONET SERVICES 34,805 0.16% 34,805
5. EURO DISNEY ASSOCIES SAS 15,450 0.07% 15,450
6. GRDF 11,332 0.05% 11,332
7. CGI FRANCE 10,739 0.05% 10,739
8. AUCHAN SUPERMARCHE 10,535 0.05% 10,535
9. ALSTOM TRANSPORT SA 10,400 0.05% 10,400
10. DALKIA 10,166 0.05% 10,166
Total Number of Employees of the TOP 10 Companies 300,403

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