The accompanying report details that most of the figures were good with bankruptcies down and new launches up even while definitive closures put on a 0.9 percent rise as the long effects of recession purge their way through the system.
Informa D&B General Director, Teresa Cardoso de Menezes, told Lusa News Agency that “the results show evidence as to how the Portuguese business universe is resilient and undergoing recovery with some sustainability” before describing how recent quarters had seen the highest number of start-ups since 2009 with insolvencies on the decline since 2013.
There were a total of 21,129 new companies launched in Portugal over the first six months of this year with the second quarter seeing the number of the more complex quota companies starting up outstripping the unipessoal structures that had otherwise led in numbers since 2011.
By sector, services proved the single largest area of growth followed by retail, accommodation and restaurants but with all sectors reporting positive growth apart from the wholesale (down 2.5 percent) and financial (down 18.3 percent) sectors.