STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COMPANIES MAIN CHARACTERISTICS FROM MANUFACTURING SECTOR AT LEVEL OF E.U.

The companies from everywhere are fighting for survival in an economical framework that is changing all the time. This fact is obviously intens when this economical framework is enlarging and includes more countries with many companies and markets. In E.U., although exists the same rules for the economical framework the companies meet new challenges. This is visible especially in the case of the recent included countries. For survival their companies must present a series of characteristics and adaptations. The identification of these survival characteristics it is possible only by doing a retrospective analysis for a long period of time. This paper focuses on the main characteristics of the companies from manufacturing sector of E.U. along the 1995-2007 periods, trying to identify the main tendency and the particularities of the companies from every country.