Economic activity of foreign-owned businesses in Australia - Other Services - 2014-15

% share
Foreign Australian Total Foreign
Key indicators (2014-15) Unit owned (a) owned (a) Businesses owned Australia
Total assets A$m 1,005 32,564 33,569 3.0 97.0
Operating businesses No. 555 72,224 72,779 0.8 99.2
Business size
Small & Medium (0 to 199 employees) No. 535 72,154 72,689 0.7 99.3
Large (200 & over employees) No. 20 70 90 22.2 77.8
Employment 000's 6.5 470.5 477.0 1.4 98.6
Sales of goods and services A$m 2,692 55,474 58,166 4.6 95.4
Operating profit before tax A$m 271 7,323 7,594 3.6 96.4
Wages and salaries A$m 304 18,144 18,448 1.6 98.4
Average wage per employee A$ 46,815 38,563 38,675 .. ..
Capital expenditure A$m 31 4,125 4,156 0.8 99.2
Industry value added (IVA) A$m 940 28,115 29,055 3.2 96.8
IVA per employee A$ 144,677 59,755 60,912 .. ..
Return on equity (RoE) % 94.5 34.9 35.3 .. ..

A$b Total assets, 2014-15 000's Total employment, 2014-15 A$b Total sales, 2014-15
35 A$32.6b 500 470.5 60 A$55.5b

30 50
400
25
40
20 300
30
15 200
20
10
100
5 10
A$1.0b A$2.7b
6.5
0 0 0
Foreign Australia Foreign Australia Foreign Australia

Foreign owned assets by economy, 2014-15 Employment by economy of foreign Sales by economy of foreign owner,
Other owner, 2014-15 2014-15
Other Other
16.7% 17.1%
24.6%
United
United
Kingdom
United Kingdom
5.8% United
States 6.2%
United States
45.3%
Germany Kingdom United Germany 46.0%
9.6% 6.2% States 6.4%
53.8%
Other EU Germany Other EU
1.5% 3.1% 2.1%

Japan Japan Japan

21.1% 12.3% 22.1%

Sales of
Top foreign-owned economies Rank Operating goods and Capital Industry
(2014-15) (b) Total assets businesses Employ. services expenditure value added
A$m No. 000's A$m A$m A$m
United States 1 455 117 3.5 1,238 21 386
Japan 2 212 49 0.8 596 4 208
Germany 3 97 15 0.2 173 1 43
United Kingdom 4 58 63 0.4 167 np 50
New Zealand 5 28 27 0.2 107 np 26
France 6 4 11 - 7 np 2
Switzerland 7 np 11 np np - np
Singapore 8 np 15 np np - np
Netherlands 9 np 12 np - - -
China 10 np 8 np - np np
All other economies (c) np 227 np np np np
ASEAN np 22 np np - np
EU28 170 121 0.6 397 2 120
(a) Foreign-owned businesses includes foreign ownership greater than 50%, Australian-owned businesses includes foreign ownership 50% or less. (b) Ranked on Total assets.
(c) Includes foreign-owned businesses with an unknown country of origin.
np = not published. - nil or rounded to zero. Source: ABS Cat. No. 5494.0

Produced by: Statistics Section, Office of Economic Analysis, Investment and Economic Division