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Business Structures
Question | Answer |
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Business owned by one person | Sole Proprietorship |
Business owned by two or more people | Partnership |
Business owned by a number of people and operated under written permission from the state | Corporation |
People who own stock in a corporation | Shareholders |
Another name for a shareholder | Stockholder |
Group with the responsibility to guide the operations of a corporation | Board of Directors |
The part of the profits that each shareholder recieves | Dividend |
Written contract granting permission to sell someone else's product or service over a certain period of time | Franchise |
The person or group of people who have received permission from a parent company to sell its products or services | Franchisee |
The parent company that grants permission to a person or group to sell its products or services | Franchisor |
Business that grows products or take raw materials from nature | Extractor |
Business that takes the extractor's products or raw materials and changes them into a form a consumer can use | Manufacturer |
Business that is involved in moving goods from producer to consumer | Marketer |
Path that a product travels from producer to consumer | Channel of Distribution |
Channel that brings products to the consumer directly from the producer | Direct Channel of Distribution |
Channel involving at least one and sometimes several middle firms before goods reach the consumer | Indirect Channel of Distribution |
Business firm that sells products directly to the consumer | Retailer |
Business firm that buys products in large quantities from producer, sorts and unitizes them, and then sells them in large quantities to retailers | Wholesaler |
Business firm that does things for you instead of making or marketing products | Service Business |