Bologna, Italy, April 2, 2015

These are the main characteristics of the most reliable Italian companies on business relations that emerged from the analysis based on the best B2B business partners carried out by CRIF.
In particular, in order to identify the probability of generating business insolvencies in the following 12 months from the collection of data, CRIF analyzed all sole traders and active companies in Italy. The ranking has been realized through a model based on different variables such as the balance sheets indexes, payment experiences, Court Judgments, personal details, legal form, geographical area, the size of the company and the years of its presence in business.

To be more precise, concerning the analysis updated to 31st December 2014, in the last 6 years the percentage of the best B2B business partners dropped from 9,53% in 2008 to 6,37% at the end of 2014, with a 33% decrease. However, the data referring to 2014 are the best results registered in the last 5 years: this is the first sign of a slight recovery. The highest level of the most reliable business companies has been observed in 2009 (when they amounted to 10,15% of the total); by contrast, the lowest level has been reached in 2010 and the percentage decreased to 5,53%.

From a general overview provided by CRIF, the geographical area with the highest percentage of B2B business partners, with 9,23% on the total of the Italian active companies, is the North East. North West and Centre following in second and third positions respectively with 8,86% and 5,57% and at the end there are South and Islands with only 2,70%. Emilia-Romagna is the best region in terms of the most reliable companies to do business with (9,97%). Then, Piedmont and Aosta Valley following in second and third positions respectively with 9,73% and 9,18%. Finally, Campania  with 2,01% and Calabria with 2,31% are yet areas in real trouble, reason why they are placed in the last positions.
Biella (14,85%), Ravenna (14,39%) and Sondrio (11,70%) are the best provinces; behind them in the first positions there are Mantua (11,67%), Cremona (11,42%), Cuneo (11,40%), Lecco (10,65%), Forlì Cesena (10,63%), Trento (10,61%) and Belluno (10,45%). By contrast, Caserta (1,44%), Naples (1,94%) and Crotone (1,99%) are the less reliable provinces.

At sectorial level, financial services have registered the higher result (19,63%), but industry and manufacturing (8,36%) behind agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing  (8,59%) have reached a very good result as well. On the contrary, the lowest percentage in terms of best B2B business partner belongs to the construction macro sector (1,70%).

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