After falling sharply in 2020 due to the effect of aid linked to the health crisis, business insolvencies rose again in autumn 2021. A normalization movement that lasted throughout 2022, the year in which 41,020 bankruptcies were registered. , compared to 27,592 in 2021, according to the Bank of France. That’s an increase of 48.7%.
The number of monthly contests also remained at the end of 2022 below its level at the end of 2019, while “contests fell sharply since the start of the health crisis (…), after the temporary modification of the dates of characterization and declaration of the state of cessation of payments, then to the public measures of support in cash to avoid this state of cessation of payments”, adds the Banque de France.
Further growth in hotels and restaurants and small businesses
It should be noted that the increase in the number of company bankruptcies between 2021 and 2022 affects all sectors of activity. The standardization movement is, however, stronger in accommodation and catering (5,369 failures in 2022, +105.7%), industry (2,994 failures, +64.3%), financial and insurance activities (974, +56.6 %) and automobile trade and repair (9135, +56.6%). +54.4%). However, these levels are still significantly lower than those observed branch to branch in 2019.
The rise in insolvencies also affects micro-enterprises (1,817 in 2022, +95.8%), small companies (811, +92.2%) and medium-sized companies (271, +73.7%) more than to micro and medium-sized companies (38,092, +46.2%) or ETI and large companies (29, +20.8%).
Source: BFM TV
