In this land of a thousand contradictions, the economy breathes through the gentle beat of its smallest businesses. A dense plot with workshops, manufacturing laboratories, family shops and artisan districts that define the boundaries of a substantial production base. It is a system that does not thrive on large industrial hubs, but on a plurality of company headquarters that are often small but capable of withstanding the shocks of the market, of falling under the blows of the crisis and getting back up quickly, of being born and disappearing, leaving significant traces of their contribution in terms of added value.
Medium, small and micro businesses are not a simple segment of the Calabria company, they are the company itself. The structural evidence is in the figures that describe 279,992 employed workers, out of 289,745 who earn their living within the entire entrepreneurial fabric of the region, with an incidence of 96.6%.
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