2012: massacre going on, 1.033 enterprises are killed every day so far

Although newborns enterprises outnumber the dead ones, over the first nine months of 2012, we had to count 279,000 shutdowns, 1,033 per day.

Even if the ratio seems positive (almost +20,000) the CGIA of Mestre
(link) issues a warning: the new enterprises are small compared to
the big ones that are shutting down. The alarming growth of the unemployment rate is there for a reason..

Closed for failure

Giuseppe Bortolussi,  Cgia of Mestre’s Secretary:

“Despite the birth/death rate being positive, we have to stress out that a lot of these new enterprises have been started not by REAL entrepreneurs with a passion for business… mostly, they come from ex-employees in the need of a job… this trend, taken alone, is not a bad signal itself, but we are not going to take it as a good one either.”

But the Secretary feels the unstoppable need to add even more drama to the situation…
(Don’t blame the translator if you are not able to understand his gibberish, that’s it, sorry)

“If within the first 5 years of their life, 50% of these companies die because lack of credit, hyper-taxation and mad-bureaucracy, then we will have to deal with a new situation, where newborn enterprises, “children of the Crisis”, are even weaker than the old ones”. But the Secretary (probably in love with the magic number five) goes on: “In the past, more than 50% of new businesses were started after years of experience as employee, the invested money coming from personal and family savings.
Nowdays, you NEED to start a company because the job as employee has gone and you have to invent your new opportunity, regardless the motivation, preparation, attitude and management skills. The Craft sector’s data are even more worrying: over the past three years, the birth/death rate in this sector had always a negative sign: -15,914 in 2009, -5,064 in 2010 and -6,317 in 2011.”

In the first three months of 2012 (latest available data) a peak of -15,226 companies has been reached, with the most troubled sectors being construction, manufacturing and personal services.

Translated and adapted by Diego Tomaselli (diego.tomaselli@gmail.com)
 
Original Article by L’Indipendenza

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