It is owned by its shareholders. These shares are available for purchase by anyone on the Stock Market.
The type of ownership is Primark is a Public Company.
bond
Public company. It is owned by the govrnment.
Family owned, & public company.
The ownership of a private company is limited to a specific group of people, often a family or extended family. The ownership of a public company is everyone who buys the stock. This could be as small as a few thousand people, or perhaps tens of millions of people.
PLC (Public Limited Company)
public company
plc public limited company
I am no expert, but in a company you have the option to sell shares for capital income. So if it is limited to the public, then it means that bussinesses cannot buy shares. Ownership belongs to the members in terms of % shares.
A company goes public when shares in that company are offered for sale (floated) on a stock exchange somewhere in the world. At that point the ownership (or a share of the ownership) of the company passes to the people purchasing those shares - the public! Before this flotation the company will have been owned privately and the flotation produces funds which goes to these owners as they are in effect selling their property.
Topshop is a public limited company this means they can sell their shares in the stock exchange and they can sell shares to the public.
close cooperation/partnership/sloe trader/public company / private company