2024 is set to be the sixteenth consecutive year of difficulty for the artisan sector in Sardinia, with a 0.3% drop in businesses already recorded in the first half of this year. Since 2008, the island has seen over 21% of its artisan businesses disappear, down from 43,000 to around 34,000. The crisis is spreading throughout the Sardinian economy: compared to 2023, 1,700 businesses are missing.
The manufacturing sector, retail trade and transport continue to decline, while construction shows resistance, despite the waning of the Superbonus incentives. These are the alarming data that emerged from the report "The Economy of Sardinia and the role of artisan businesses", presented today by the Study Center of Cna Sardinia in Cagliari.
"We present a report on the economy of Sardinia with the major economic indicators, enriched by the results of a survey conducted on a significant sample of artisan businesses that gives us the image, a photograph of the state, the conditions of craftsmanship and of the smaller business. Everything can be condensed into one assumption. Sardinia continues to show, from an economic point of view, conditions of endemic weakness", is the comment of Francesco Porcu, regional secretary of Cna.