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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. ...

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....