5,019 new companies were registered in the Registry of Companies
in 2014. This represents an increase of 10.8 per cent over the
previous year. 82 new partnerships were also registered which is
also an increase over previous years.
A 1.5 percent decline in the number of company liquidations was
also registered, placing the total number of companies placed into
liquidation at 1,171. 191 company mergers were carried out during
the year, a decline of nine per cent from the previ-ous year.
Total Registrations and Active Registrations
There were 68,676 companies, 1,514 partnerships - "En
Nom Collectif" and 126 partnerships - "En
Commandite" on the regis-ter at the end of 2014. Of these
46,039 companies were considered active, while the number of active
partnerships was just over 1000. This represents an increase of
eight per cent, 3.7 per cent and 30.1 per cent respectively when
compared with the previous year end.
