What is “CB”?
CB stands for Comunidad de Bienes (Spanish), a general partnership used primarily in Spain. The suffix signals that the business has unlimited liability and is privately held.
Full meaning & translation
The full form is Comunidad de Bienes, a Spanish-language term. It translates literally as “Community of goods.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as comunidad bienes, comunidad de bienes.
Where it's used
CB appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:
What it tells you about the company
Equivalent forms around the world
These are the closest structural equivalents to CB in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “CB” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme CB” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "Acme CB", "country": "es"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme cb",
"legal_type": null,
"tokens": [
"acme",
"cb"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Frequently asked questions
What does CB stand for?
CB stands for Comunidad de Bienes (Spanish), which translates as "Community of goods".
Is a CB public or private?
A CB is a private entity — its shares are not publicly listed or traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a CB?
Members of a CB have unlimited personal liability — they can be held responsible for the entity's debts beyond their initial investment.
Which countries use CB?
CB is used in Spain.
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