Press release No. 115 of 31 March 2016
WIESBADEN – In the year 2015, roughly 125,000 businesses were started 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) also reports that this was an increase of 0.6% compared with the year 2014.
In contrast to the rising number of larger business start-ups, other business notifications showed a downward trend. The number of small business start-ups fell by 5.8% to roughly 198,000.