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ContentsRandom House Book Fair Set for Saturday, March 3, 2012 AACC Identifies 10 Trends Affecting Community Colleges Miller Center for Small Business Key Partner in New Carroll Business Path Three-fourths of Carroll Business Locations Employ Fewer than Ten Workers Carroll County and Maryland Household Statistics
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| Three-fourths of Carroll Business Locations Employ Fewer than Ten Workers | ||
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The most recent federal survey of businesses at the county level, completed in 2009, found a total of 4,400 business establishments in Carroll County. A business establishment is a single physical location at which business is conducted or services or industrial operations are performed. It is not necessarily identical with a company or an enterprise, which may consist of one or more establishments. The survey does not include governmental establishments. Specialty trade contractors (site preparation, concrete, framing, finish carpentry, masonry, roofing, electricians, plumbers, HVAC, drywall, flooring, painting) comprised 468 or nearly 14 percent of the establishments with fewer than ten employees. Residential building construction accounted for another seven percent of the Carroll County establishments with fewer than ten employees. Small businesses providing professional services (accounting, computer systems design, engineering, legal services, management consulting) totaled 412 and represented 12 percent of the county business locations with fewer than ten employees. A wide variety of retail stores made up nearly 11 percent (356 establishments) of the small businesses in Carroll County. These included motor vehicle and parts dealers, food and beverage stores, health and personal care shops, gasoline stations, and small clothing stores. Ambulatory health care services (physicians, dentists, therapists), nursing and residential care facilities, social assistance and child care establishments accounted for 294 or nearly nine percent of Carroll County's businesses with less than ten employees. Business support services accounted for seven percent of the small businesses, led by 103 landscaping and 36 janitorial services firms. Other small service establishments included 112 auto repair shops, 80 religious organizations, and 37 hair and nail salons. A wide variety of businesses made up the balance of small establishments in the county. These included real estate firms (128 establishments), restaurants and bars (99), durable goods wholesalers (78), insurance agencies (76), trucking companies (59), and commercial banks (51). Larger establishments, with 100 or more employees, made up less than two percent of the total business locations in Carroll County. The major private employers in Carroll County in 2010 included Carroll Hospital Center, Springfield Hospital Center, Random House, EMA/Fairhaven, McDaniel College, Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Carroll Lutheran Village, Northrop Grumman, English American Tailoring, EVAPCO, General Dynamics Robotic Systems, Knorr Brake, C.J. Miller, Flowserve, and S.H. Tevis/Modern Comfort. |
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