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Date: December 2, 2024 3.5 million Legal Units in 2023

...With its structural analyses of the German economy as a whole and of individual economic sectors, the Statistical Business Register provides political, economic and scientific stakeholders with an important basis for decision-making. In 2023, there were a total of 3.5 million Legal Units in Germany. These were primarily Legal Units with fewer than ten employees: according to the Statistical Business Register, they accounted for 87% of the total number of Legal Units. However, half of the turnover (54%) was generated by Legal Units with more than 250 employees. ...

Date: February 21, 2024 2022: About 4.4 million persons employed work in foreign-controlled enterprises in Germany

In 2022, exactly 38,438 companies belonged to a parent company based abroad. In addition to manufacturing, comprises the remaining industry, accommodation and food service activities and the service sector. From 2021, the areas of financial and …

Date: February 21, 2024 2022: About 10% of the foreign-controlled enterprises have parent companies in Asia

...German enterprises whose parent companies are in Africa, South America or Australia and Oceania, were less frequent among all foreign-controlled enterprises. Enterprises in Germany controlled by parent companies in those continents totalled just 571, which was a share of about 1.5% in all Inward-FATS enterprises. About 74% of the German foreign-controlled enterprises belonged to a group of companies whose parent company has its registered office in another European country. ...

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: July 30, 2024 Enterprises engaged in foreign trade: New opportunities for analysis due to microdata linking

The analysis of the foreign trade activities of enterprises using linked datasets gives researchers and policymakers the opportunity to gain new insights. This article sheds light on various options for linking a new set of foreign trade data, the …

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....

Press release No. 184 of 12 May 2023 Number of larger businesses established in the 1^st quarter of 2023 down 5.5% year on year

...In the 1st quarter of 2023, roughly 33,100 businesses were established in Germany whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they are of greater economic importance. Based on the evaluation of business notifications, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of larger businesses established was therefore down 5.5% from the same quarter of the previous year....

Press release No. 185 of 12 May 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in April 2023 down 14.1% on previous month

...Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany decreased by 14.1% in April 2023 compared with the previous month. In February and March 2023, in contrast, there had been month-on-month increases of 10.8% and 13.2%, respectively. When interpreting the results, it should be noted that insolvency procedures are included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...

Press release No. 162 of 19 April 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in March 2023 up 13.2% 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 13.2% in March 2023 compared with the previous month. In February 2023, it rose by 10.8% from January 2023. When interpreting the results, it should be noted that such procedures are included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...

Press release No. 109 of 17 March 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in February 2023 up 10.8% 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 10.8% in February 2023 compared with the previous month. In January 2023, however, there had been a 3.2% decrease on December 2022. When interpreting the results, it should be noted that such procedures are included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...

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. 061 of 15 February 2023 Number of larger businesses established in 2022 down 9.3%

...In 2022, just over 115,100 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 9.3% compared with the previous year, which was heavily impacted by the Covid-19 crisis. ...

Press release No. 057 of 13 February 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in January 2023 down 3.2% on previous month

...Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany fell by 3.2% in January 2023 compared with the previous month. In December 2022, there had been a 3.1% increase on November 2022. When interpreting the results, it should be noted that such procedures are included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...

Press release No. 014 of 11 January 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in December 2022 up 3.1% 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 3.1% in December 2022 compared with November 2022. In November 2022, the figure had been up by 1.2% on October 2022. When interpreting the results, it should be noted that such procedures are included in the statistics only after the first decision has been taken by an insolvency court. ...

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. ...