Statistics of fast-growing companies in the profit sector

The statistics of fast-growing companies in the profit sector provide information on the number and total employment per activity. A fast-growing company is a company with more than 10 employees in the reference year T and which grows on average by 10 % annually over the following three years. Growth is adjusted for jobs resulting from the acquisition of other companies over the three-year period. This is an organic growth. A company is considered to be fast-growing for year T if the following 3 conditions are met: the company is not a birth of the year T-3. The company has more than 10 employees for the year T-3 This threshold is used to prevent the inclusion of very small enterprises with a high growth rate of, for example, 2 to 5 employees. This growth is calculated using the following formula: It is important to note that the calculation of employment in T does not take into account the employees of a takeover by the undertaking that took place during the period [T-3;T]. If an acquisition is established in the [T-3;T] period, we deduct from the number of employees in T the number of employees of the acquired company at the time of the acquisition. NACE profit sector enterprises (rev. 2) B to N, K and S95. Differences between the totals shown and the category totals are the result of rounding in the employment variables, as they are an annual average, leading to decimal numbers.