Mid-market companies –companies that are too big to be considered SMEs, but smaller than big, exchange listed businesses – play a key role in the UK and in the other top European economies.
Across the UK, Germany, France and Italy (the EU-4), the mid-market represents a small number of companies (ranging from a low of 1.2% in Germany to 1.7% in France) and yet it generates about one third of private sector revenue and employs about a third of each country’s workforce.
This section illustrates the findings of an ambitious research project including a survey of more than 1,600 businesses across these four markets.
Mid-market companies employ more than thirty million people and have total annual revenues of just under 7.5 trillion Euros.
Mid-market companies represent just 1.37% of total UK companies, but contribute 32% of private sector GDP and more than one in three UK jobs.
In each of Europe’s largest economies mid-market companies benefit from the global potential and scale of larger companies combined with the flexibility and drive of smaller ones.
This interactive tool is based on the results of a survey of more than 1,600 mid-market business leaders across the UK, France, Germany and Italy.