The working paper contains data on the Top 100 British and German firms measured by employment in five different years. Our analysis and interpretation of the tables has been published in the journal Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2/2010, pp. 27-43: ?Big Business im 20. Jahrhundert: Die 100...

This paper contains data on the quantitative development of the West German retailing from 1949 until 2000 and a detailed description of the data. The data show explicitly the development of the West German Mass Consumption Society in this period.

The paper deals with the development of big business in Germany during the 20th century. It shows the first results of the German team of the research project ?The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century?. The paper analyses how the structure of big business changed: it shows the...