Record number of companies in the Netherlands
dinsdag, 21 oktober 2008
A record number of nearly 800,000 companies were registered in the Netherlands, as of 1 January, 2008. This is some 40,000 more than the year before. Most of these companies are active in commercial and business services.
The majority of the new companies registered in 2007 were in the construction and business services sectors. More than 10,000 new construction companies, mainly one-man businesses, pushed up the total number of businesses in this sector to nearly 97,000. The number of companies in the business services sector rose by 12,500. Nearly half of these newcomers were management consultancies. Another 2,500 companies were active in computer and IT services, and 1,200 new mail order companies were established. This latter category experienced the highest growth in 2007; equivalent to 40 percent.
Source: CBS
