• Fwd from @ 📝Bankruptcy Conveyor Belt📝 German statistics continue to reliably record records — just not the kind people usually take pride in. In June 2026, courts registered 2,266 company bankruptcy filings — 15.8% more than a year earlier. For the first half of the year, such filings totaled 12,812, a 6.7% increase compared to the same period in 2025. More bankruptcies occurred only in the first half of 2013 — when 13,253 cases were recorded. 🖍Meanwhile, the sum of creditor claims looks illogical from the outside. Bankruptcies increased by 6.7% (year-on-year), but the sum of claims, conversely, fell — from €28.2 billion a year ago to €18.5 billion now. The reason is that if major players were going under, debts would be counted in billions per company, and the total sum would only grow along with the number of bankruptcies. But since the sum is falling while the number of cases rises, small and medium-sized businesses are going bankrupt first and foremost. 🔻More statistics details ▪️Transport and warehouse operations are hit hardest — 71.6 bankruptcies per 10,000 companies, followed by hospitality and restaurant business (59.6) and construction (53.4). ▪️Personal bankruptcies are also rising: in June — 6,839 cases (+5.1%), for the half-year — 38,932 (+2.4%). ▪️The list of victims includes quite living stories: an auto industry supplier with 130 years of history, a cardboard factory nearly 150 years old, one of the country's oldest paper mills (289 years in operation), and an auto dealership chain with a thousand employees. Meanwhile, new companies registered in the half-year outnumber those closed. About 69,600 major startups versus 49,800 closed (overall — 418,100 registrations versus 298,300 closures). In other words: formally the market is not shrinking — the composition of players is simply changing faster than usual. ❗️This looks like a classic picture of economic decline. Old and stable companies with a century-and-a-half history are leaving the market one after another, and new ones quickly take their place — far more vulnerable to the next round of rising costs, credit rates, and weak demand. Statistics meanwhile record not economic recovery, but its accelerated renewal through bankruptcy. 📎High-resolution infographic 📎English version #Germany #infographic #economy 👁@evropar — on the brink of Europe's death 💸 Support us
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