{"id":1318,"date":"2013-05-03T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T06:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2014-03-25T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T09:34:42","slug":"new-entries-commercial-register-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/new-entries-commercial-register-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New entries into the commercial register in Q1 2013: Thurgau on the rise – Zurich remains stable"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of new companies entered into the Swiss commercial register has\u00a0remained\u00a0stable for Q1 2013. When compared to the same quarter one year prior the numbers indicate an increase of 0.4% to a total of 10,105 entries. The clear sinner in terms of gains is the canton of Thurgau with an increase of 26%. The canton\u00a0of Zurich, an important market barometer, lost 0.4%. These are the results of the latest\u00a0analysis\u00a0carried out by the entrepreneurship experts at STARTUPS.CH.<\/h2>\n

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The number of new entries in the Swiss commercial register in Q1 2013 saw a solid gain of 0.4%, especially when\u00a0considering\u00a0the continuing uncertainty in the\u00a0neighboring\u00a0European\u00a0states\u00a0and the weakening of the Euro. In total there were 10,105\u00a0entries\u00a0into the commercial register (Q1 2012: 10,060). As a result of seasonal fluctuations, compared with the previous quarter the number of entries sank by 2.9%.
\nThe canton of Thurgau has seen gains. Not only does the canton have\u00a0ample\u00a0amounts of\u00a0relatively\u00a0cheap\u00a0development-zoned land, “the authorities also\u00a0guarantee\u00a0businesses that create new jobs will\u00a0receive\u00a0favorable\u00a0operational conditions”, explains Michele Blasucci, CEO of STARTUPS.CH. This is evident when one looks at the number new entries: In Q1 2013 the number rose an astonishing 26.2% to 308 entries when compared to Q1 2012. Lucerne,\u00a0meanwhile\u00a0 saw a fall of 10%, but this can be attributed to the unusually\u00a0high numbers that were seen the\u00a0previous\u00a0year. Since the beginning of 2012, Lucerne has become the most tax efficient location for\u00a0business\u00a0in all of Switzerland and the influx of new\u00a0businesses\u00a0in 2012 reflected this new position.<\/p>\n

In absolute term Zug still beats Lucerne<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zug\u00a0continues\u00a0to enjoy more commercial\u00a0register\u00a0entries in absolute terms than Lucerne does. In Q1 2013 there were 496 entries ( a minus of 7.5%), in Lucerne it was 389. This still reflects the fact that the ratio is 4:3 in Zug’s favor. In the more populous and\u00a0financially\u00a0stronger canton of Zurich, the uncontested best absolute\u00a0performance\u00a0was seen (16.9% of the national total). There were a total of 1,704 commercial register\u00a0entries\u00a0in Zurich in Q1 2013 (a minus of 0.4% over the previous year).
\nThough Graub\u00fcnden may be the number one for tourism, it is last when it comes to entrepreneurship. This is\u00a0reflected\u00a0in the number of new\u00a0entries\u00a0(Q1 2013: -4.5% to 210 entries). In Ticino, due to the uncertain political situation in\u00a0neighboring\u00a0Italy, the Monti Effect has lost its sway. The former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti pushed many Italian into business due to his tougher tax stance. In Q1 2013, Ticino accordingly showed modest growth with 2.4% totaling 773 new entries.<\/p>\n

489 new entries\u00a0through\u00a0STARTUPS.CH in Q1 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the first quarter of 2013 STARTUP.CH launched 498 new companies. Based on the data collected by STARTUPS.CH it can be seen that the most new entries will\u00a0continue\u00a0to be in the legal form of a sole\u00a0proprietorship\u00a0or a limited liability company (33.8% and 36.2%\u00a0respectively). Public limited companies represented 20.8%. “Sole proprietorship are\u00a0advantageous\u00a0to young entrepreneurs, because they can use this form as a tool to integrate social security into their business structure”, explains Blasucci.
\nHe further estimates that 30 to 40% of young entrepreneurs give up on theri musiness after a maximum of 5 years in operation. “This by no means tells us that all these companies went into bankruptcies, rather, the company is put into ‘stasis’, bu remains entered into the commercial register. Additionally: in the\u00a0German\u00a0speaking are of\u00a0Switzerland\u00a0 the “survival rate” is higher than in the French and Italian speaking parts. Notably men also go bankrupt more often than women in these cases. Women are more careful, including when it comes to calculations, says Blasucci.
\nThe Current year will most\u00a0likely\u00a0see a restrained development. “The problems that our neighbors have encountered will cause us to experience less people wanting to take the risk of starting\u00a0their\u00a0own\u00a0business\u00a0in the coming months.”, he explains.<\/p>\n

The chart below shows the\u00a0absolute\u00a0change\u00a0in the number of commercial register entries in the left column and the relative change in comparison to the same time in the previous year in the right column for each canton with the national total listed at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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The number of new companies entered into the Swiss commercial register has\u00a0remained\u00a0stable for Q1 2013. When compared to the same quarter one year prior the numbers indicate an increase of 0.4% to a total of 10,105 entries. The clear sinner in terms of gains is the canton of Thurgau with an increase of 26%. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[174,272,122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3472,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-lg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}