Registrations and bankruptcies of enterprises in the first quarter of 2026
In the first quarter of 2025, there were 89 004 registrations of enterprises recorded i.e. 2,0% registrations more than in the corresponding period of previous year and 108 enterprises declared bankruptcy i.e. 8 bankruptcies more than in the first quarter of 2025.
The number of business registrations in the first quarter of 2026 amounted to 89,004 com-pared to 87 250 in the same period of the previous year. More than half of all registrations concerned three kinds of activity: services (25.0%), construction (18.9%), and trade; repair of motor vehicles (12.9%). The largest increase in registrations compared to the first quar-ter of the previous year was recorded in the sections: transportation and storage (by 11.6%) and information and communication (by 6.1%). A decrease was observed only in the section trade; repair of motor vehicles (by 2.4%) and construction (by 0.1%).
Considering the legal forms of entities, most registrations concerned natural persons conducting economic activity, which accounted for 81.3% of all business registrations. The number of registrations in this group in the first quarter of 2026 increased by 0.7% year-on-year, compared to the decrease observed last year. Limited liability companies ac-counted for 16.6% of all registrations, and compared to the first quarter of 2025, 9.7% more entities with this legal form were registered. The number of cooperative registrations in-creased several times, i.e., 179 registrations compared to 38 in the first quarter of 2025, with 166 of them concerning a special type of cooperative, namely energy cooperatives (their activity focuses solely on the production, storage, and trade of electricity or heat from renewable energy sources).