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Date: October 27, 2022 Services in 2020: information technology sector employed 903,000 people

...In 2020, roughly 901,000 people worked in the 95,100 businesses in Germany whose main activity was in the field of information technology. The number of people working in that branch rose by approximately 42,000 (+0.3%) year-on-year, while the number of legal units decreased by 2,500 (-2.7%)....

Date: October 12, 2020 Statistics on foreign-controlled enterprises

...The statistic on foreign-controlled enterprises includes all enterprises resident in Germany that are controlled by a parent enterprise with its registered office abroad and belong tot he non-financial business economy....

Date: July 31, 2019 Insurance industry: Gross premiums are growing again

...At the end of 2017, roughly 1,288 direct insurance and reinsurance companies and pension funds were operating in Germany. While direct insurers cover various risks of private individuals and businesses, reinsurers cover the risks of other insurance companies. Pension funds are a type of employee pension scheme....

Press release No. 527 of 12 December 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in November 2022 up 1.2% on the previous month

...Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 1.2% in November 2022 compared with October 2022. In October 2022, the figure had been up 18.4% on September 2022. It should be noted that such procedures will be included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...

Press release No. 498 of 29 November 2022 61% of enterprises involved in global value-added chains in 2020

61% of the just under 64,000 enterprises with 50 or more persons employed in Germany were part of a global value-added chain in 2020. In this context they received goods or services from other countries or delivered them there. The Federal …

Press release No. 495 of 25 November 2022 Filling IT vacancies increasingly difficult for businesses

...A growing number of businesses in Germany have difficulties filling IT vacancies while the frequency of IT security incidents is increasing. More than a fifth (22%) of businesses with 10 or more employees had their own IT specialists in 2022, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). ...

Press release No. 477 of 14 November 2022 Number of larger businesses started between January and September 2022 down 7.3%

...Just over 89,200 businesses were started in Germany in the first three quarters of 2022, 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) reports that this was a decrease of 7.3% compared with the same period a year earlier, which was heavily impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. ...

Press release No. 475 of 11 November 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in October 2022 up 18.4% on the previous month

...Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 18.4% in October 2022 compared with September 2022. Their number had fallen by 20.6% in September 2022 from August 2022. It should be noted that such procedures will be included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...

Press release No. 461 of 31 October 2022 Number of larger businesses started between January and August 2022 down 6.6%

...Between January and August 2022, just over 80,200 businesses were started in Germany 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) reports that this was a decrease of 6.6% compared with the same period a year earlier, which was heavily impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. ...

Press release No. 444 of 17 October 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in September 2022 down 20.6% on previous month

...Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany in September 2022 fell by 20.6% on August 2022. Their number had increased by 6.6% in August 2022 from July 2022. It should be noted that such procedures will be included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...