Press release No. 459 of 19 December 2016
WIESBADEN – From January to September 2016, roughly 96,000 businesses were started whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 0.6% compared with the same period of 2015.
The number of small business start-ups fell by 10.6% to roughly 139,000.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.