The number of insolvent companies fell in 2014, in annual terms, which happened for the first time since 2010, informed the Ignios.
As part of the data discloses the ‘Observatory of Insolvency, New Constitutions and credits Losers’, the provider of risk management services found that there were 6,773 insolvencies of companies in 2014, “with the second half of the year to definitively confirm the decreasing path” .
“Even taking into account the procedural constraints in the Ministry of Justice, which mainly focused on the September month’s records, the number of insolvencies retreated at least 10.6% compared to 2013,” estimates the Ignios in a statement released today.
At the end of last year, were active in Portugal 540 359 companies, with the number of insolvencies recorded a 1.25% weight in relation to that total, also demonstrates a “slight decline” compared to 1.44% recorded in 2013, he added.
Of the insolvent companies last year, 93.4% were micro-enterprises also indicates the Ignios, which in its basic data includes both the insolvency proceedings already completed, such as those that are in progress (including those requested by the companies and creditors) and also approved the insolvency plans.
An analysis of the figures for 2014 the company also believes that the growth of Special Procedures Revitalization (PER) contributed to the decrease in the number of insolvencies.
“In the first half of last year, had been admitted PER 734, compared with 521 for the same period of the previous year,” reads the statement.
According to the data released today, the creation of companies last year also points to an increase over 2013, with a total of 35,264 new companies created in 2014 – 1.6% more than in the previous year.
In this way, gives up “continue the path of ascent that has been registered since 2012″, when it recorded an annual fall of 11.5% in this indicator, he adds.
The chief executive of Ignios, António Monteiro, said that in 2014 “confirmed the signs of recovery in the economy that began to notice since the end of 2013″.
“They are also indicators that do not show as significant growth as desirable but which show that in addition to the more favorable economy, also the confidence levels of businesses are recovering,” the same official, quoted in statement.
The construction sector and public works was the one that had the greatest number of insolvencies last year (1,284 companies, or 19% of the total), followed by the sector of “other services” (1232 and 18.2% of the total) and, thirdly, by the companies of “retail sale” (1,118, 16.5%).
For districts, Lisbon was one where there were a greater number of insolvencies in the past year (21.8% of total), but was also where they were born more companies (29.3% of all new constitutions) .
The following are the Port of districts (23.1% of insolvencies and 18.7% of constitutions) and Braga (11.1% and 8.5%).
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