ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In 2025 illegality cost to businesses of trade and public exercises 41 billion and put at risk 284 thousand regular jobs, growing compared to the previous year (in 2024 39.2 billion and 276 thousand jobs). These are some findings from the Confcommercio Study Office on the illegal phenomena presented during the day “Legabilities We Like!”. In detail, commercial abusivism costs 10,5 billion euros, abusivism in catering weighs for 8,5 billion, counterfeiting for 5 billion, tacking for 5,4 billion. The other costs of crime (referencing, insurance, defensive expenses) amount to 7.4 billion and cybercrime costs to 4.2 billion.
“Legability and security are essential to widespread economic growth, quality of life and business freedom. Legality and security allow you to do business, work, live cities, compete correctly, generate confidence.” Thus the president of Confcommercio, Carlo Sangalli, on the occasion of the thirteenth edition of “Legalitaire we like!”. According to Sangalli “this is why we wanted to reinforce the meaning of our own work area today, talking about Ethics of business as well as legality and security. Business ethics is the way many entrepreneurs, every day, do their duty, respect the rules, create jobs, generate value and contribute to the economic and social hold of communities. They are companies that create value on values.”.
“In this perspective – he added – ethics precedes and strengthens legality. In addition to the necessary need for greater security, on our part, as Confcommercio, we are committed to representing companies that choose the regular market, fair competition and collaboration with the institutions and with the Order’s Forces every day. Businesses that refuse abuse, illegality and shortcuts in general. Business ethics, I said: for us remains a prerequisite for fairness of the market, starting from the same labor market. Our enterprises are ethical companies also because they apply collective agreements more representative, which are – themselves – an ecosystem of safeguards, rights, security and social responsibility. Within our contracts there are regular work, training, welfare, protection of people, quality of work relations and social cohesion. This also means legality. This also means security.”.
PER 29% IMPRESE TERZIARIO PEGGIORA SICUREZZA, AUMENTA PERCEZIONE FURT
29% of market tertiary firms perceive a worsening of safety levels in 2025. Thefts remain the most perceived criminal phenomenon by entrepreneurs (26%), followed by acts of vandalism and split (24.1%), aggression and violence (24.1%), robberies (24%). Three out of ten entrepreneurs (30.2%) fear that their business may be exposed to crimes such as theft, fraud and computer fraud, vandalism, robberies, assaults and thefts represent the main concern (32%). 22.8% of companies report criminal episodes related to baby gangs in the operating area and half of them (49.6%) are concerned about their activity – the investigation continues –. An enterprise of three (33%) fears the mala movida, especially for urban degradation (50.3%) and for acts of vandalism and damage (45.5%). Order strengths (66%), anti-wear organizations (47.7%) and category associations (34.6%) are considered the closest to businessmen threatened by crime.
In the face of criminal episodes 65.1% of entrepreneurs argue that those who suffer them should press charges, 51.2% would turn to category associations and 19.7 % declare that they would not know what to do. Almost 7 out of 10 enterprises (66.6%) are considered penalized by abuse and counterfeiting, in terms of above all unfair competition (53.5%) and reduction of revenues (22.2%). More than 6 businesses in 10 (62.3%) underwent tackling and, among them, almost 1 out of 5 (19.8%) were affected several times a week or daily. Perfumes, cosmetics and personal hygiene products (19.7%), clothing and footwear (18.9%), fashion accessories (16.7%), small electronics, technological accessories, batteries (14.1%), packaged food, such as tuna and canned meat, pasta, flours, coffee (13.4%) and alcohol and wine (13.1%) are the most tacked products. Anti-tanking systems (74.5%) and video surveillance (73.4%) are the most widely used protective measures to combat the phenomenon. For about a three-seater business (31.6%) the notch significantly affects revenues, with losses that in most cases (88%) reach up to 2%.
87,3% IMPRESE DEL TERZIARIO HA INVESTITO IN SICUREZZA
Almost nine out of ten market tertiary companies (87.3%) invested in security measures, mainly in video surveillance systems (74%) and anti-theft alarms (55.5%), averaging 1.1% of turnover. One out of four companies is in favour of contributing economically to strengthen the presence of private supervision in their area of activity. These are some findings from the Confcommercio Study Office on the illegal phenomena presented during the day “Legabilities We Like!”. To worsen the viability of the neighborhoods – according to the survey – are above all microcriminality (43.2%) and vandalism (41.7%). Urban degradation (35.4%), lower job opportunities (23.3%) and increase of residents’ insecurity (20.6%) are indicated as the main consequences of increasing the closures of neighbourhood economic activities.
Over 7 out of 10 companies agree on the provision of security guards (such as neighborhood police) in areas where there is microcriminality. For 6 out of 10 entrepreneurs a city with many open shops is more secure and for more than one entrepreneur on two the presence of unfair or closed shops favors the spread of microcriminality and vandalism.
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