1.2 Classification Of Businesses Flashcards
Describe secondary sector
Manufacturing and construction industries
Taking the products from primary sector and processing them to make finished product
Making and assembling products
Describe primary sector
Extractive industries
Concerned with using natural resources
Farming, mining, oil drilling
Produce raw material like ore and oil or finished product like fish and orange
Describe tertiary sector
Service industries
Provide intangible services
The most important sector in highly developed country
Describe private sector
Set up by an individual or small group of people who form a company
Main goal is goal is to make profit
Describe public sector
Governments employ public sector workers to carry out work on their behalf
Goal is to prove an essential economic service for the nation
Funded by taxpayer’s money