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Different range of different

businesses and their ownership:
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Range of Business
Range of business is
variety of different
types of business
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1.Ways of classifying Business:

According to :
Where they operate?
What they try to
achieve?
Sectors of industry they
are involved into.
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Where they operate

Local
National
International
Global
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LOCAL:
Companies that provides
goods and services to local
population, locally owned
and in particular area , eg
cold stores near your
home.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS
Provides goods and
services within the
geographical boundaries
of a country.
May have more than one
branch within the country.
Example : Al Jazeera
Supermarkets.
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INTERNATIONAL
Manufacturing/
exchanging goods and
services in multiple
countries.
Example : Samsung,
iPhone.
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GLOBAL
Selling Goods and Services
in different countries.
Have differenr capital,
operations and
manufacturing
establishments in various
countries.
Example: Cocoa Cola,
Pepsi.
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Some companies may be

regraded as International
in some places and as
Global in other places like
NISSAN, it is regarded as a
Global Company Company
in the UK while it is an
International Company in
many other countries.
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Nissan has a
manufacturing plant in the
UK with a full set of
operations and just a
branch unit that sells cars
in other countries.
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2.What are the businesses

they are trying to achieve?
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PUBLIC SECTOR
These businesses are owned,
Managed and controlled by
the Government.
They usually provide the
primary needs of the people.
Example: Electricity, Water
(EWA in Bahrain )
Main aim is to provide
services.
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PRIVATE SECTOR
These businesses are owned, Managed
and controlled by a single or a group od
individuals.
The main aim is to make profits.
Examples: VIVA, AL ANSAR MALL etc.
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NOT FOR PROFIT/ CHARITABLE

These are organizations set up ,
organized staffed and run by people
who are working purely on voluntary
basis usually for humanitarian causes.
Example : Al Islah society.
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According to their Activity:

Primary
Secondary
tertiary
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Primary Sector
These are concerned with
extracting primary
products from the nature.
Example: Farming, Fishing
etc.
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Secondary Sectors
These are industries that
process the output of the
Primary sectors and they
usually manufacture
goods.
Example: Fish packing
industries, heavy metals
manufacturing industries.
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Tertiary Sectors
These industries are
service providers for all
the businesses.
Example : Banking,
transportation, tele
communications etc.
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Business Purposes
Business activity typically
involves one person or
organization providing a
product or service that
they supply to someone
else , usually at a price.
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Business activity helps you

to meet these
requirements and various
businesses have been set
up to do this.
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Product/Ser Want/Need Business

vice it satisfies

Internet Entertainme Online music

Music nt store
Download

Sandwich Hunger Any

bakery/shop
Tooth filling Feel the Dentist
ache/pain

Haircut Looking good Hair Saloon

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Businesses always respond to

the demand of its customers
by providing the demanded
goods. If you look around
here in Bahrain you will see
that since there are a very
large number of expatriates,
we also find many different
shops who sells goods as
required by these expatriates.
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Some of the offered items

are either products or it
maybe service too.
Products are those that we
can touch and feel
Services are intangible
and can be only felt, like in
the table above, Music.
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Ownership.