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SMEs in New Zealand: Structure and Dynamics - 2006

[ Last Updated 2 June 2006 ]



More than 97% of New Zealand businesses have less than 1% overseas equity.


Similar to previous years', very few New Zealand businesses have more than 1 percent equity owned by overseas shareholders. New Zealand's largest businesses are the most likely to have overseas equity. Just over a quarter of enterprises with 100 or more employees had 50 percent or more overseas equity.

Note that for confidentiality reasons the 100-499 and 500+ EC size groups could not be provided in these tables.

Table 10: Percentage of Businesses with Overseas Equity by EC Size Group, as at February 2004-2005
Overseas Equity % EC Size Group
0 1 to 5 6 to 9 10 to 19 20 to 49 50 to 99 100+ All Firms
2004                
Less than 1% 98.40% 98.31% 97.30% 95.73% 92.63% 82.90% 68.77% 97.80%
1 to 24% 0.25% 0.21% 0.39% 0.70% 1.03% 2.72% 3.95% 0.33%
25 to 49% 0.09% 0.12% 0.25% 0.30% 0.30% 0.89% 1.13% 0.13%
50% or more 1.25% 1.35% 2.07% 3.27% 6.03% 13.48% 26.16% 1.74%
2005                
Less than 1% 98.43% 98.25% 97.48% 95.93% 92.70% 84.24 68.60% 97.82%
1 to 24% 0.22% 0.24% 0.36% 0.53% 1.05% 2.15% 3.49% 0.30%
25 to 49% 0.12% 0.12% 0.21% 0.26% 0.40% 0.99% 1.51% 0.15%
50% or more 1.23% 1.40% 1.95% 3.27% 5.84% 12.62% 26.40% 1.73%

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