What are the spearheads of the Italian economy? With the decline of big industry, the answer would seem easy: the fashion, kitchen, . Yet these are precisely the sectors most in crisis, looking at the data released these days by the Confesercenti Observatory, data that refer to the first 8 months of 2013 and which speak of a real collapse that has hit the textile companies, of hospitality and catering.
They have been 50.000 companies that went out of business in the first two-thirds of the year, with a negative balance of nearly 20.000 units. If the trend were to continue in the last part of the year as well, according to the Confesercenti Observatory the minus sign would amount to 30.000 businesses and 90.000 jobs.
With regard to the collective catering (that is, the one that includes banqueting and catering services linked to the production and distribution of ready meals for customers), for example, from January to August there were 112 fewer activities. In the same period, 2035 businesses related to the service also closed bar on the national territory: if there were 5806 registrations, in fact, there were also 7841 terminations. Between restaurants, 8492 companies lowered the shutter, compared to 5909 registrations: the negative balance in this case is 2583.
In the catering sector it is the Campania the region that pays the greatest price for the crisis: in fact, here there is the sad record of the negative balance between closures and openings, which reaches 289 companies. But it is Roma to also be the capital of closures: from January to August 223 restaurants disappeared forever from the economic fabric of the City, a record negative balance among all Italian cities with 300 registrations and 523 closures detected: almost two closures a day. Added to the negative balance of 194 bar service companies, they give us the record of 417 companies destroyed to date.
Among the accommodation and hotel structures, the difference between openings and closures is -371 structures, a negative balance resulting from the comparison between the 830 registrations and the 1201 terminations recorded from January to August. In this case, the region that has suffered the most is theEmilia Romagna, with a negative balance of 58 companies, followed by Campania (-51) and in third place by an ex aequo which gives a good picture of a crisis without borders: both the Sicilia the Trentino Alto Adigein fact, 43 companies in the hospitality sector have lost.
If tourism licks its wounds and takes stock of the damage, things are no better for another theoretically leading sector of our local economy: the fashion. In the first eight months of 2013 there were 3400 new businesses in the clothing and textile sector, but also 8162 closures, for a negative balance of 4762 units: in practice, one closure out of four in the retail trade concerns clothing.
In such a bleak panorama, it is partly comforting the growth of a booming industry: online shops. In fact, according to the surveys of the Confesercenti Observatory, retail businesses that sell via the internet have increased by 20% in the last 24,5 months, going from 9180 to 11.430, with more sustained growth in the South and Center . A signal that the entire Italian economy should analyze and understand for a general relaunch of the country.
