1. The company is no longer trading 2. The company no longer exists as a legal entity in its own right 3. Assets are liquidated, creditors paid (in specific order if insuffient to satisy all) 4. The directors are no longer limited by guarantee if they DO trade under the guise of the company. 5. No further return forms are due for tax / vat etc if a firm just stops trading it might go dormant instead of dissolving. A company that is dormant (doing nothing) can become active again, a dissolved company cannot.
15 Biggest Employers in the World. Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) is the worldâs largest publicly traded employer, with approximately 2.2 million employees across of the globe, a number greater than the population of cities such as Houston, Philadelphia, and Phoenix. In all, nearly 100 publicly-traded companies worldwide employ at least 175,000 workers each.
These companies operate in a variety of industries, from fast food to energy to finance. They are also based throughout the world, from the United States to China to Russia to Germany. Based on figures from S&P Capital IQ, these are the largest employers in the world. Employee count is just one indicator of a companyâs size. The companies that employ the most workers are also extremely large by revenue.