2.4. Companies’ size
The cleaning sector is, in terms of quantity, mainly composed of small and very small companies. In
2006, 89% of the cleaning companies had less than 50 employees and only 11% more than 50
employees [3].
A more detailed analysis of the company size in 2003 [1] shows that very small companies with less
than 10 persons largely dominate the cleaning industry (Figure 1). However, companies employing
more than 500 persons (3% of the companies) generated almost half of the total turnover in the
industry.