Trade, construction and manufacturing the sectors with the highest number of bankruptcies

Trade, construction and manufacturing. These are the three sectors most affected by judicial liquidations, followed by tourism and transport. Providing an analysis of the growing phenomenon of bankruptcies of Italian companies are the national open data of the Marche Chamber of Commerce, which allow the analysis of all the 'Instruments for the regulation of business crisis and insolvency' used throughout Italia in 2025 by Ateco code.

The Marche portal makes available data on all instruments related to business crises, including judicial liquidations, which are the most widespread and most used procedure in the Centre North. The data refer to the locations of registered companies initiating the procedure (and not already deleted from the register at the time of the event). All events, as referred to in Legislative Decree 12 January 2019, no. 14 (Business Crisis and Insolvency Code), are mapped: in addition to judicial liquidations, debt restructuring agreements, special administration, compulsory liquidation, approved composition with creditors, minor composition, controlled liquidation, approved restructuring plan, bankruptcy appeals and Simplified composition are included.

Out of a total of 12,093 procedures registered in 2025 at national level, 20.2 per cent are in commerce; 19.7 per cent in construction; 16.6 per cent in manufacturing; 8.9 per cent in accommodation and food services; and 6.4 per cent in transport and storage.

These are the sectors that are most represented, with some territorial specificities: the same analysis by Ateco code in the Marche region alone shows that 34.3% of the companies involved are manufacturing; an even more marked incidence (40% out of a total of over 60 instruments registered in the database) in the province of Fermo alone, where the historic footwear district is located, particularly hard hit by the export crisis.

Moving to Latium, the sectoral analysis changes once again: here it is retail and wholesale trade that is most affected by liquidation procedures, where 21.5 per cent of the regulatory instruments used by enterprises in the territory are concentrated; followed by trade, where approximately 19 per cent of the procedures are concentrated.