Excerpt from A Hundred Major German Industrial Corporations (Classic Reprint)
These figures tell a simple story. There are fewer corpor ations every year, but greater accumulations of capital in those that remain. There are fewer small corporations, and an increas ing number of large corporations with capital over 5 million hf In connection with the 1936 figures, the points out that 3,hh8 corporations with stock cabital of billion RM (over three-fourths) were held by 881 corporations with a stock capital of billion R1 And of the 881 corporations, A25 were partly held by other corporations and an additional 258 were subject to the control or influence of other undertakings, the state, or foreign concerns.