Manufacturing, retail, construction: small businesses are more likely to go bust

It is the other side of the Italian economy. The side that is more readily left in the shadows, to be overlooked. The side that does not tell of successes, but of failures. And alongside these, it highlights the vulnerabilities of many businesses. Particularly small ones. Crushed by the effects of international tensions, by debts arising from high energy costs or by online competition; by changing consumer habits in some sectors, by rising raw material costs or by the withdrawal of subsidies in others. Not to mention those businesses that have been drained of their resources by organised crime. One fact emerges irrefutably from the latest report by the Unioncamere Observatory on the Business Crisis, previewed by Il Sole 24 Ore:…