Industry Breakdown of Companies
in France

Explore more than 7,396,428 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 7,396,428 (15.6%)
Largest Country: United Kingdom 7,879,706 (16.6%)
Total Number of Companies in Europe 47,531,223

According to our database, a total of more than 7,396,428 businesses are registered in France . That represents 15.56% of all companies available in the HitHorizons database. These France-based companies have a share of 7.44% of all sales generated by EU-based businesses and employ 6.27% 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 (3,066,239 companies in total), followed by Services (2,467,560) and Retail Trade (639,745).

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 7,396,428 registered companies

  Industry, Number of Companies Number of
Companies
Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate 3,066,239 41.5% 3,066,239
Services 2,467,560 33.4% 2,467,560
Retail Trade 639,745 8.6% 639,745
Construction 385,400 5.2% 385,400
Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing 264,669 3.6% 264,669
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services 179,039 2.4% 179,039
Wholesale Trade 173,296 2.3% 173,296
Manufacturing 156,560 2.1% 156,560
Public Sector 49,316 0.7% 49,316
Unknown industry 12,813 0.2% 12,813
Mining 1,791 0.0% 1,791

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 (30.39%), Membership organization (7.78%) and Amusement/recreation services (5.16%).

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 7,396,428 registered companies

France: TOP 10 Companies with Highest Sales

According to our database, companies registered in the France generated € 6,524,123,749,058 in sales, which represents 7.44% 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 7,396,428 registered companies

  Company Name, Sales & Share Sales
1. ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE € 72.33B 1.11% € 72.33B
2. STELLANTIS AUTO SAS € 62.59B 0.96% € 62.59B
3. AIRBUS € 57.41B 0.88% € 57.41B
4. RENAULT SAS € 52.49B 0.8% € 52.49B
5. ENGIE € 35.71B 0.55% € 35.71B
6. CMA CGM € 32.3B 0.5% € 32.3B
7. SANOFI WINTHROP INDUSTRIE € 24.12B 0.37% € 24.12B
8. CSF € 23.92B 0.37% € 23.92B
9. TOTALENERGIES RAFFINAGE FRANCE € 23.18B 0.36% € 23.18B
10. ORANGE € 22.33B 0.34% € 22.33B
Total Sales of the TOP 10 Companies € 406.4B

France: Top 10 Companies with Highest Number of Employees

According to our database, companies registered in the UK employ 23,847,196 people, which represents 6.27% 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 ENEDIS (41,016).

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 7,396,428 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. ENEDIS 41,016 0.17% 41,016
4. STELLANTIS AUTO SAS 34,175 0.14% 34,175
5. ONET SERVICES 31,866 0.13% 31,866
6. EURO DISNEY ASSOCIES SAS 15,079 0.06% 15,079
7. ELIOR RESTAURATION FRANCE 13,277 0.06% 13,277
8. ALSTOM TRANSPORT SA 10,968 0.05% 10,968
9. CGI FRANCE 10,739 0.05% 10,739
10. SIN&STES 10,000 0.04% 10,000
Total Number of Employees of the TOP 10 Companies 309,304

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