Hopes for growth in the South emerge, above all, in the summer when this land seems to be reborn amidst its beauties. And the season just ended has drawn diagrams of hope in entrepreneurship with services, in particular, among the sectors most imbued with trust together with construction. However, there is that shadowy side that emerges from the latest quarterly report from Movimprese and in which we can hear the lament of the craftsmanship that continues to cross the dunes of a crisis, germinated on the lava rock of difficult years, and not only in Noon.
The quarter described by Unioncamere is the one between July and September which shows the barbed wire that the crisis that emerged in 2022 has made even more evident around the hopes of recovery of an increasingly less reactive craftsmanship. Companies are drowning in debt with energy and raw material costs becoming unsustainable and the risk of going out of business. The Movimprese report reports a growth rate of Calabrian artisan companies (in the registrations-terminations ratio) of 0.12% compared to 0.30% in the same period last year. In absolute terms, the balance between openings and closures of artisan activities is +40, the balance between 329 registrations and 289 terminations.
Overall, as of 30 September 2024, 31,919 artisan companies were registered in the Chamber of Commerce registers in Calabria (this is the lowest figure in recent years). Compared to last year (32,397) there was a decrease of 0.36%. In 2010, there were 37,140 artisan companies active in Calabria. Other times. The sectors that keep Craftsmanship in Calabria alive are services (10,928 businesses present as of 30 September 2024) and Construction (10,059).
