“Nicola Bertin (Services & Development Confcommercio Ascom Padova): “A push also from the pandemic: now the sector is “rationalising”
In Veneto there are over 8 thousand companies in IT alone, but in Padua, the “broad field” of services exceeds 6 thousand units
The definition always leaves some margin of uncertainty because at the end “advanced tertiary sector” each one seems to give a different meaning.
“Already within us – he admits Nicola Bertin, president of Servizi & Sviluppo Confcommercio Ascom Padova – the boundaries are not always very clear: there are those who limit themselves to IT and those who, however, have a broader vision also including activities that we could define as more “professional”. In any case it is a sector in strong development“.
A confirmation comes recently investigation by Confcommercio Veneto and Unioncamere Veneto who collected the regional data from the last three years noting that the companies in the advanced tertiary sector amounted to 8,003 at the end of 2023 divided into companies that deal with the creation of software and IT consultancy (53% of the total equal to 4,267 units) and activities that manage data processing, hosting and web portals / 47% equal to 3,736 units).
“The most significant aspect – continues the president of Servizi & Sviluppo Confcommercio Ascom Padova – is that iThe sector continues to grow recording a positive trend with an increase in the number of active offices of +1.1% on an annual basis and of +0.6% in dependent local units”.
Reason?
“Let’s say that the pandemic He had a role – analyze Nicola Bertin – both with regards to theexpansion of the sectorboth for what concerns his own “rationalization” which can be read in the decrease in partnerships (-4.9% between 2022 and 2023) compared to a increase in joint-stock companies which from 2021, the year in which they amounted to 2,265, rose to 2,297 the following year to settle at 2,354 at the end of ’23 with an increase of 2.5% in ’23 over ’22. Moreover, they are Individual businesses also increased (+2.4% in the comparison between the last two years), a clear sign that the sector lends itself to welcoming professional figures who enter the market individually and then consolidate over time”.
“That the world of business services both in constant expansion, including growing employees and consultants – he concludes Nicola Bertin – it’s a established fact which is also reflected within Confcommercio Ascom Padova. Where, moreover, more and more entrepreneurs are associated with the provision of services which, as I said at the beginning, cannot necessarily be attributed to the strictly IT sector even if they make consistent use of IT, not disdaining the use of intelligence artificial. These are business consultancy firms, studios of communications professionals, logistics professionals, human resources specialists, video makers, etc. A kind of “wide field” That, only in the province of Paduameans something like 6 thousand businesses!”
PADUA 17 APRIL 2024
(Ascom Padua)
