Business Growth, Isola in Negative in the First Quarter of 2025
The growth rate is -0.18%. Retail trade, agriculture, manufacturing and construction are suffering the most. The tourism and hotel sector is doing well.Per restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
Negative growth rate (-0.18%) for Sardinia in the dynamics of companies in the first quarter of 2025.
This is what emerges from the numbers released by the research office of the Chamber of Commerce of Sassari . For the Island, a slightly lower decline than the national average, which from January to March recorded -0.05%. A result that however - it is explained - is affected by the typical negative "seasonality" of the first quarter , a period in which the cessations of business activities already started in the last months of the previous year occur.
In detail, in the first quarter of the current year, Sardinia recorded 2,367 new business registrations against 2,672 non-official cessations, thus highlighting a net negative balance of 305 businesses.
Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the greatest difficulties are observed in wholesale and retail trade (-2.9), agriculture, forestry and fishing (-2.3), manufacturing (-2.4 percent) and construction, which recorded a significant loss of 200 companies .
Some sectors are showing signs of recovery and sustained growth, such as real estate activities (+7.3%), professional, scientific and technical activities (+3.2%), education (+3.6%), health and social assistance (+2.4) and other service activities (+1.9 percent).
In this general context, Northern Sardinia shows a relatively better performance, with a positive quarterly growth of 0.22%, placing it in eighth place in the national ranking .
One result is driven by the tourism-hotel sector, with particular reference to accommodation activities which grow, from the first quarter of 2024 to the same period of 2025, by 13% . Further supporting the positive trend are also the real estate sector (+6.3) and specific personal service activities (+3.5). Negative sign instead for retail trade (-3.5 percent), agricultural sector (-1.4) and catering (-1.8).
Finally, in comparison with past years, in the first quarters of 2021-2023 the Island had shown positive growth rates. Starting from the first quarter of 2024, a worsening of the balance between openings and closures of economic activities was observed, which is therefore confirmed also in the first three months of 2025.