Industry Breakdown of Companies
in France

Explore more than 7,595,191 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 7,595,191 (15.7%)
Largest Country: United Kingdom 7,928,336 (16.4%)
Total Number of Companies in Europe 48,406,837

According to our database, a total of more than 7,595,191 businesses are registered in France . That represents 15.69% of all companies available in the HitHorizons database. These France-based companies have a share of 7.41% of all sales generated by EU-based businesses and employ 6.34% 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 (3,142,789 companies in total), followed by Services (2,580,581) and Retail Trade (638,942).

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 7,595,191 registered companies

  Industry, Number of Companies Number of
Companies
Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate 3,142,789 41.4% 3,142,789
Services 2,580,581 34.0% 2,580,581
Retail Trade 638,942 8.4% 638,942
Construction 380,870 5.0% 380,870
Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing 276,318 3.6% 276,318
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services 182,756 2.4% 182,756
Wholesale Trade 172,956 2.3% 172,956
Manufacturing 158,366 2.1% 158,366
Public Sector 48,547 0.6% 48,547
Unknown industry 11,249 0.1% 11,249
Mining 1,817 0.0% 1,817

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 (30.16%), Membership organization (7.98%) and Amusement/recreation services (5.27%).

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 7,595,191 registered companies

France: TOP 10 Companies with Highest Sales

According to our database, companies registered in the France generated € 6,579,777,940,167 in sales, which represents 7.41% 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 7,595,191 registered companies

  Company Name, Sales & Share Sales
1. ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE € 72.33B 1.1% € 72.33B
2. STELLANTIS AUTO SAS € 62.59B 0.95% € 62.59B
3. AIRBUS € 59.45B 0.9% € 59.45B
4. RENAULT SAS € 52.49B 0.8% € 52.49B
5. ENGIE € 35.08B 0.53% € 35.08B
6. CMA CGM € 29.29B 0.45% € 29.29B
7. SANOFI WINTHROP INDUSTRIE € 27.56B 0.42% € 27.56B
8. CSF € 23.92B 0.36% € 23.92B
9. TOTALENERGIES RAFFINAGE FRANCE € 23.18B 0.35% € 23.18B
10. ORANGE € 21.96B 0.33% € 21.96B
Total Sales of the TOP 10 Companies € 407.8B

France: Top 10 Companies with Highest Number of Employees

According to our database, companies registered in the UK employ 24,259,131 people, which represents 6.34% of all people employed by companies available in the HitHorizons database. The company with the highest number of employees is SNCF VOYAGEURS (77,203), followed by ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (64,981) and ORANGE (50,073).

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 7,595,191 registered companies

  Company Name, Employees & Share Number of Employees
1. SNCF VOYAGEURS 77,203 0.32% 77,203
2. ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE 64,981 0.27% 64,981
3. ORANGE 50,073 0.21% 50,073
4. ENEDIS 41,016 0.17% 41,016
5. STELLANTIS AUTO SAS 34,175 0.14% 34,175
6. ONET SERVICES 31,866 0.13% 31,866
7. ELIOR RESTAURATION FRANCE 13,277 0.05% 13,277
8. ALSTOM TRANSPORT SA 10,968 0.05% 10,968
9. ENGIE ENERGIE SERVICES 10,833 0.04% 10,833
10. CGI FRANCE 10,739 0.04% 10,739
Total Number of Employees of the TOP 10 Companies 345,131

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