Press release No. 205 of 17 June 2016
WIESBADEN – According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), some 34,000 businesses were founded in the first quarter of 2016, whose legal form and number of employees suggest some economic importance. That was 2.8 % less than in the same period of the previous year.
In the same period of 2016 some 50,000 small businesses were founded. Hence, the number of start-ups of small businesses decreased 11.4 % on the same period a year earlier.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.