Définition
A legal unit or enterprise is considered to be market-producing if it participates in the production system to produce goods and services for sale on a market, either directly or by making the means of production available.
Most of its production must be marketable, which means that it must be produced for sale at an economically significant price: the income from its sales must cover at least 50% of its production costs.
Establishments inherit the market producer status of the legal unit to which they belong.
Remarque
The concept of the market productive unit is central to the definition of the scope of business statistics, which includes market productive enterprises in the industry, construction, trade and services sectors.