There are numbers in theItalian economy which cannot go unnoticed, or those of the Bankruptcy of companies. After years of decrease, completed in June 2020, the Observatory procedures and liquidations of Cerved It highlights that at the end of 2024 a peak of the +17.2%.
Given in clear growth compared to the previous year. The entrepreneurial realities of the North of Italywith the capital and services companies that have revealed the worst scenario.
Boom of failures in Italy
From the data it emerges that, at the end of 2024, a peak of the 17.2% from the procedures bankruptcy launched by companies. It is, as mentioned, a very significant annual growth, given that 2023 had ended with a decidedly lower percentage: 9.8%. By bringing these percentages to absolute numbers, it turns out that it has passed from 7,848 a 9,194 cases of bankruptcy.
The North strongly accuses the blow
From the general data previously exposed it is possible to obtain others, divided by sector and geographical location of the companies in bankruptcy. The Cerved In fact, it highlights that the greater concentration of cases interests the areas of the country usually more productive: North – West.
At the top, between the regions, there is specifically the locomotive of the Italian economy, the Lombardywith 30% of total cases.
Regarding the sectorsthe bankruptcies recorded at the end of 2024 have mainly affected: capital companieswith 82% of the total cases, followed at a distance from the sector services35%. Bad they also went:
- constructions (+25.7%);
- industry (+21.2%).
Speaking of industry, the worst damage took place in the metal sector, +48.4%, and in that of fashion, +41.1%. Instead move in direction strongly opposite the sectors of consumer, of the chemistry and that pharmaceuticalwith the bankruptcy procedures found that they are in a strongly lower number than the cases exposed above.
Who risks the bankruptcy more
A real is traced company profile Which, with the current scenario, risks more of being forced to declare failure. Entering specifically, the most exposed are entrepreneurial realities young (created for less than 5 years). In 2024 they represent 12% of the total of the failed companies, while in 2022 they were stopped at 2%.
Because Italian companies fail
At the basis of the bankruptcy declarations there are a series of factors which represent the context within which the realities are called to operate today. So the companies close:
- due to the strong increase in costs, especially those relating to energy and charges on debts;
- Due to the deterioration of the economic situation last year.
All ways of exit from the market are growing
In addition to the bankruptcy bankruptcy procedures, Cerved has also found the increase in all the ways in which a company can leave the market. At the top we find the voluntary liquidationswhich grew by 12.7%, followed by several instruments of composition of the business crises which were introduced in 2022 by the code of the business crisis and insolvency. To make it the masters in this sense are the unitary procedures and the measures precautionary Which, especially in the case of capital companies, grew by 170% from 2022 to 2023.
