The number of insolvencies among impact companies down 34 percent to 184 in 2018

The number of insolvencies among impact companies remained constant over the past three years, with a slight decrease from 184 companies in 2017 to 183 in 2018. At the same time, however, the total value of fixed assets of insolvency firms reached EUR 809, the lowest threshold in the last five years and a 34.44 percent decrease compared to the previous year.

The average value of fixed assets per insolvency impact company reached EUR 4.4 million in 2018, down 34 percent from 2017. And the total turnover of these companies is down 55 percent, and almost EUR 800 million less than the previous year.

The 183 insolvency impact companies in 2018 have 11,760 employees, 17.42 percent less than in 2017. The counties with the most impact insolvencies are: Bucharest and Ilfov County (66.35 percent ), Sibiu (9.5 percent), Cluj (8.4 percent), Bihor (7.4 percent), Constanta (7.4 percent), Brasov (6.3 percent).

“As predicted, the insolvency among the impact companies was relatively constant in 2018. However, the fact that last year the value of the fixed assets of the insolvency companies dropped to the minimum threshold of the last five years show that the size of the insolvency impact companies is smaller. As insolvency practitioners, our first objective is to redress and save value in Romanian companies. Thus, in 2018, 41 percent of the CITR portfolio was made up of companies in various reorganization stages, while the national average is around 6 percent for the same year,” said Vasile Godinca-Herlea, CITR CEO.

Based on the fixed asset value criterion, the top ten companies hold 33 percent of the fixed assets of the insolvency impact companies, amounting to EUR 267 million, and 10 percent of the jobs (1,164).

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The biggest impact on the insolvency market was made by the industrial sector, which accounts for 29 percent of the impact of insolvency (as in the previous year) and almost 30 percent of the fixed assets (EUR 242 million). At the same time, the industrial sector owns almost 23 percent of the total insolvency impact (EUR 149 million), down 8 percent compared to the previous year, and provides 4,504 jobs.

At the level of industrial branches affected by insolvency, in 2018 the food industry ranks first, with 18 insolvency companies with a turnover of EUR 62 million and 1,740 employees, ahead of the chemical industry, ranking first in 2017.

In 2018, 15 mid-sized companies hit insolvency on a monthly basis, which means a two-day insolvency. Out of all impact insolvencies, 119 were opened at the request of the borrowers, and 64 at the request of the creditors.

In terms of the Romanian entrepreneurial environment, in 2018, 135,532 new companies were set up, while 8,304 went into insolvency, almost 9 percent less than the previous year.

Impact companies are companies with over EUR 1 million assets, accounting for 3 percent of companies in the Romanian economy and make up about 65 percent of the national turnover and hire 49 percent of Romania’s employees, according to the CITR Group study in early 2018.