Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
This year should see record number of companies created, with an extra 84,758 businesses setting up in 2020 compared with 2019.
This is equivalent to a 12.3 per cent increase year on year, which is the highest percentage growth since 2011 and the highest actual growth on record.
Between June and August, an additional 59,358 new companies were created at Companies House, according to research.
>See also: How to become a sole trader
Sectors seeing the highest growth included e-commerce (up 88 per cent with 12,490 new businesses registered), clothing (up 55 per cent) and, unsurprisingly, retailers of medical goods (up 176 per cent).
Although on the face of it the SHL research is good news, the reality is that many new companies are created by those who have lost their jobs because of Covid-19.
Rather than create employment, 77 per cent of the UK’s 6m small businesses are sole traders offering little chance of employment to others.
>See also: Registering a company name – a Small Business guide
And there is also a question mark as to how many of the 59,538 companies created between June and August are even legitimate, given the widespread fraud which has gone on with
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