CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PARAGUAYAN COMPANIES
The Paraguayan companies Generally and in their great majority are conformed or they have begun by familiar units that develop the enterprise work like means of familiar subsistence and applying obtained empirical knowledge with the practice of the main activity of the company.
The enterprise professionalism and the separation between the owner and the company are privilege of few medium and great companies with categories within the heading of that necessarily must adapt their structure, philosophy and operation to compete with installed foreign companies in the country. Also export opportunities force the company to modernize and to adapt their operation to the modern tendencies and models of enterprise management, like Norms ISO 9000 for example.
Statistical information
Between april of 1997 and February of 1998 the first Industrial Census was made in Paraguay that counted on procedure and methodologic rigor, whose geographic cover included all the country. The released information correspond to years 1995 and 1996. The investigated Universe included/understood more to all the industrial companies with seven or workers. Also it was come to release information of the sector construction and services to industries.
The accomplishment of the Census allows to have cartographic and statistical information of 3,524 industrial companies, of services and construction, including/understanding basically details on its economic dimensions, productive capacity, data of export, activities and products.
The information about the Industrial Census is available in the offices of the CEDIAL
