1.8% more start-ups of larger businesses from January to September 2009
WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), some 117,000 businesses were founded from January to September 2009, whose legal form and number of employees suggest some economic importance. That was 1.8% more than in the same period of the previous year. In the first nine months of 2009, some 222,000 small businesses were founded. Hence, the number of start-ups of small businesses rose 1% on the same period a year earlier, following a 7% decrease in 2008. For further information please call: Brigitte Saling, tel: +49 611 75 2600,
