Berlin (dpa) – According to the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), German companies are only slowly recovering from the consequences of the corona pandemic. In the catering, hotel and leisure industries, almost every fifth company is facing financial collapse, as a special evaluation of the DIHK business survey showed according to the “Handelsblatt”. In the catering industry, two out of three companies complain about falling equity, in the leisure industry it is every second. In macroeconomic terms, this affects 24 percent of the 27,000 companies surveyed by the DIHK.
Many company-related service providers from the rental, trade fair and congress sectors, for example, assessed their financial situation better than at the beginning of the year. A quarter of the retailers still complain of liquidity bottlenecks and a third of a decline in equity.
According to the information, the financial worries decrease with the size of the company. While only every second company with fewer than 20 employees describes their own financial situation as unproblematic, in companies with 200 to 1000 employees it is three out of four. Smaller companies have more difficult access to outside capital and experience bad debt losses more often than larger ones.
The industry is more optimistic about the future and is investing again. However, a quarter of manufacturing companies that have increased their investment plans are still facing a problematic financial situation, according to the survey.
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