The firms based in the province of Treviso and registered in the archives of the Chamber of Commerce at 31st December 2000, including agricultural concerns, result to be 83,635, to which another 11,384 local branches need to be added, for a total of 95,019 firms. The primary sector (agriculture and fishery) has 24,592 concerns, i.e. 29.3% of all economic activities, so that Treviso ranks 5th in Italy as for the number of agricultural concerns.

Let's now analyse the other economic sectors and their importance, excluding agriculture

The industrial sector counts 23,955 firms and covers nearly 50% in terms of employed persons. Manufacturing activities emerge as the driving force of Treviso economy, with a total of 13,576 concerns, of which 67.6% small enterprises, and 97.6% being companies with fewer than 50 employees. Within the manufacturing sector, the mechanical sector ranks first, and includes metalworking, carpentry, machinery production for the industry and electrical appliances, with 5,152 concerns (37.9% of the total manufacturing sector); the second place is occupied by the wood processing and furnishing sector: woodworking, furniture production, especially kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, rush and wicker products, panels and doors, with 3,247 concerns (23.9% of the total manufacturing sector); the fashion industry ranks third and includes textile-knitwear, sportswear and footwear, with a total of 2,395 concerns (12.2% of the total manufacturing sector). The construction sector is also a massive one, with 10,327 concerns, 81.4% of which are small enterprises

The tertiary sector can be subdivided into trade and commercial business activities on the one hand, and services on the other. The first tertiary sector has 20,656 concerns, out of which 17,734 are business firms and 2,922 are commercial business activities. The service sector, with 14,320 concerns, includes services mainly targeted to firms, i.e. real estate, information technology and research activities, transport and communication, brokerage (11,365 concerns in total), and services for individuals (public, social and personal services, education and health) with 2,955 concerns. The transport sector, 2,778 firms, has the highest percentage of one-man businesses: 81.3%.

The prevailing juridical form for firms in the province of Treviso is the one-man business (57%, excluding agriculture), followed by the general partnership (27%) and the joint-stock company (15%): these latter two juridical forms have been considerably increasing for the last few years, thus showing a positive evolutionary structure of ownership patterns in the province of Treviso.