Many close down and start working as employees. Young people, on the other hand, don't come any closer. The number of artisans present in Italy continues to decrease. Since 2012 they have fallen by almost 325 thousand units (-17,4 percent) and in the last 10 years only in 2021 the overall audience has increased, albeit slightly, [...]
read moreAlso due to Covid, craftsmanship is increasingly in trouble. In the first 6 months of this year, the companies in the sector decreased by 4.446 units; bringing the total number present in Italy down to 1.291.156. Both in the I (-10.902) and in the II quarter of 2020 (+6.456) the balances were among the worst of the [...]
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At least 7 billion euros. This is the estimated loss of turnover that artisan businesses will suffer in this month of closure due to the Coronavirus (from 12 March to 13 April 2020). To do the accounts was the CGIA Studies Office. The sectors most affected are also those [...]
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The haemorrhage of artisan enterprises continues. If in the last year (2018 to 2017) the total stock present in Italy fell by over 16.300 units (-1,2 percent), in the last 10 years, however, the contraction was very heavy: -165.500 activities (-11,3 , XNUMX percent). A fall that did not register any solution of continuity in the whole time period analyzed [...]
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In the last 8 years (*) we have lost almost 158.000 active businesses between artisan shops and small neighborhood shops (**). Of these, over 145.000 worked in crafts and just over 12.000 in small businesses. The CGIA estimates that just under 400.000 employees lost their jobs following these closures. "The crisis, the [...]
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