A service company and a product company ask different things of their structure. One carries people and contracts, the other carries stock, suppliers and returns. Before you pick a jurisdiction or an entity layout, decide which kind of business you are actually building.
For a service business the valuable things are people, client contracts and reputation. For a product business they are inventory, supplier terms, sales channels and the obligations that come with goods reaching a buyer. The structure should sit where those things sit.
Services carry delivery and liability risk tied to contracts. Goods carry supply, damage and consumer-facing risk. Putting both in one entity is a choice, and the review states what it exposes.
A service entity is judged on where its people work. A product entity is judged on where goods are held and sold. Mismatches here may prompt questions from counterparties and providers.
Services scale by adding people, products by adding channels and stock. The entity that is sensible at the first sale may not be the one you want later.
Fits when: One team, one main market, simple flows. Trade-off: All risk and assets in one place.
Fits when: Owners want to keep value apart from day-to-day risk. Trade-off: More administration and a need for clear intercompany logic.
Fits when: The two lines have different customers, risks or partners. Trade-off: Duplicated upkeep and shared costs to allocate.
Selling both? The hybrid case raises its own open questions and may be worth reviewing before registering anything.
Say what the customer pays for, who delivers it and where delivery physically or digitally happens.
We assign contracts, stock, intellectual property and customer relationships to candidate entities, and flag the unclear ones.
You receive layouts side by side, what each assumes and what to verify with local professionals.
This is business and structuring analysis, not legal, tax or investment advice. Where a legal or tax opinion is needed, we say so and point you to a licensed adviser.
Not necessarily. The review compares one entity against a split and shows what each choice assumes.
Only as far as the model requires. A full country comparison is a separate Consulting service.
No. This review stays on company structure and entity roles.
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