New surge in bankruptcies: + 14% in the second quarter – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on 23 September 2014 at 09:34.
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It is still dark. There is a new surge in bankruptcies: between April and June, more than 4 thousand businesses have opened bankruptcy proceedings, an increase of 14.3% compared to the same period of 2013′s double-digit growth the default port if more than 8 thousand share Considering the whole first half, up 10.5% compared to the already high level of the previous year and record the beginning of the time series since 2001
“We are going through a very delicate phase for the system of Italian SMEs – comments Gianandrea De Bernardis, CEO of Cerved -: the recession is pushing out of the market even companies that had successfully passed the first phase of the crisis and that they are paying the bill to the credit crunch and a question for too long stagnant ” .

The more sustained increase is observed between the companies of the capital, the legal form in which are concentrated three-quarters of the cases, which exceeds 6 thousand in the first half quota. Minor instead an increase in the phenomenon of partnerships (+ 5.9%) and among other forms (+ 1.8%).

The analysis conducted by Cerved first group in Italy in the analysis of credit risk and a major credit rating agencies in Europe, shows how the failures regularly cover the entire peninsula. “The growth rates – continues De Bernardis – they are everywhere in the double digits except the Northeast, where there was an increase of 5.5%, the lowest level of the whole territory. An increase of 14% compared to the first half of 2013 failures in the South and the Islands, 10.7% in the North West and 10.4% in the center. “
At the sectoral level, the black shirt is up to the service that count an increase of 15.7%, a sharp acceleration from the first half of 2013 continue, though with the slower pace, the procedures in the construction and manufacturing: the failures of construction companies grow in the first six months of 2014 8.2% (+12.8% in 2013), while for manufacturing enterprises, the increase was 4.5% (+10.5% in the first half of last year.)

Between April and June, with corrective legislation, the collapse of questions agreed in white: were 665 (-52%); it is a consequence of a decrease in the agreed plan consisting of (-12.3% in the first six months of 2014)

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