Simply answered, a private company is a non-stock company which is wholly owned by its investor(s). A public company is one that has issued stocks to anyone in the public who wishes to buy them. There are different govrenment regualtions for a publicly owned company.
distinguish between a proprietory company and a public company
public co is mostly owned by government while Private co is owned by family, share holders i.e private sector
A public company is an entity that is traded on the stock market. You can buy and sell shares in a public company. A private company does not offer shares to the public.
A private company differs from a public company by how it does its research. A public company can dip into public capital markets as to where private companies cannot.
Distinguish between a public law relationship and a private law relationship.
a public limited company can offer to sell shares to the public where as a private limited company can not. The other differences between PLC and LTD is that a private company is quoted on stock exchange where as a public limited company is not quoted on stock exchange.
public means anyone private means certain people that already knew about the corporation
public company
Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of business from the public sector to the private sector. An example of this could be when a private equity firm conducts a leveraged buyout (LBO) to turn a publicly traded company private. A reverse merger is the acquisition of a public company by a private company to bypass the lengthy and complex process of going public. Essentially, a public shell will acquire a private operating company and thus take the private company public.
Private
Mars is a private company.
Godrej is a private company.