{"id":301382,"date":"2026-02-16T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:27:09","slug":"business-registrations-and-bankruptcies-up-in-q4-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301382\/","title":{"rendered":"Business registrations and bankruptcies up in Q4 2025 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last quarter of 2025, registrations of businesses in the EU<\/a> increased by 0.5% compared with the third quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the same time, the number of bankruptcy declarations rose by 2.5% compared with the third quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This information comes from data on business registrations and bankruptcies<\/a> published by Eurostat today. This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on quarterly registrations of new businesses and declarations of bankruptcies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Registrations<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: sts_rb_q<\/a><\/p>\n

Registrations up by 6.4% in information and communication sector<\/p>\n

In the fourth quarter of 2025, business registrations rose in 5 out of 8 sectors of the business economy. Information and communication sector registered the largest increase, with registrations up by 6.4%. This was followed by industry (+4.9%) and accommodation and food services (+1.3%). In contrast, modest declines were recorded in trade (-0.3%), construction and transport (-0.1% each).<\/p>\n

Bankruptcies rise by 8.6% in accommodation and food services\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bankruptcy declarations also showed mixed trends across sectors. The number of bankruptcies increased in 6 out of 8 sectors. The largest increases were recorded in accommodation and food services (+8.6%), information and communication sector (+7.9%) and transport (+5.6%). Decreases in bankruptcies were recorded in the sectors of trade (-3.4%) and finance (-0.7%).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last quarter of 2025, registrations of businesses in the EU increased by 0.5% compared with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,757,113,61,759,60,758,760],"class_list":{"0":"post-301382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-industry","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sts","15":"tag-trade-and-services"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}