Pricing preferences for smaller companies
Small and medium sized companies are heavily exploited by gonvernments and banks. These are some more good reasons to grant small and medium-sized companies some license pricing privileges.
VSE - Very Small Enterprises |
SME - Small or Medium Enterprises as defined by the EU |
This is our definition for companies, which meet these requirements:
- less than 10 employees
- and has an annual turnover not exceeding
3 million Euro
- and is owned by less than 25% by larger organisations (Non-SME2)
(unless these are financial investors, such as banks or venture capitalists).
If one of these conditions is NOT met one is NOT a VSE in our terms. |
The term SME has been defined by the EU. An SME is one which:
- has fewer than 250 employees
- and has either
- an annual turnover not exceeding 40 million Euro, or
- an annual balance-sheet total not exceeding 27 million Euro
- and is owned by less than 25% by larger organisations (Non-SME2)
(unless these are financial investors, such as banks or venture capitalists).
If one of these conditions is NOT met one is NOT an SME in our terms. |
Middle:
Owner-run large companies |
All the others:
Large companies / corporate groups |
Middle-sized companies in our terms meet these requirements:
- fewer than 500 employees
- and has either
- an annual turnover not exceeding 100 million Euro, or
- an annual balance-sheet total not exceeding 50 million Euro
- and is less owned by than 25% by larger organisations
(unless these are financial investors, such as banks or venture capitalists).
If one of these conditions is NOT met one is NOT a middle-size company in our terms..
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Large companies in our terms meet these requirements:
- or has either
- an annual turnover exceeding 100 million Euro, or
- an annual balance-sheet total exceeding 50 million Euro
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