Estimates for Businesses to be transferred in Germany between 2010 and 2014

Since the early 1990s, IfM Bonn (an institute for SME research) publishes annual estimates on the number of German businesses that have to be transferred to new owners. Recently accessible sources of data enabled IfM to enhance results and provide more accurate estimates. These new sources show that nearly 110,000 family owned business will have to deal with the topic of succession in the period...