Record of company creation in Catalonia in June
The country registers more than 2,100 new commercial companies, but subscribed capital falls
BarcelonaCatalonia closed the month of June with 2,142 new companies. According to the provisional data on the formation of commercial companies from the National Institute of Statistics, the Principality increased new business activity by 9.8% year-on-year, after a June 2025 that already approached historical records. In fact, according to INE records, it is the best June in terms of the inauguration of new companies in the historical series, with data available since 2008.
To constitute these more than 2,100 companies, a total capital of around 45.8 million euros was subscribed, a decrease of close to 60% compared to June 2025, when nearly 113.7 million euros were declared to create new commercial companies. In fact, this is the lowest paid-in capital figure in a June month since 2020, in the midst of the pandemic.
With this data, Catalonia breaks two consecutive months of year-on-year decreases in business creation, with negative figures in both May and April. Business dissolutions also accelerated, it should be noted: according to the INE, 143 businesses closed their doors, 20.2% more than a year earlier. Of these dissolutions, 95 were voluntary, while only 9 were reported due to mergers with other companies, and 39 declared "other reasons".
Spanish records
State-wide data, according to INE records, also reached new highs for the month of June this 2026. Specifically, across all of Spanish territory, 11,153 companies were incorporated in the sixth month of the year, the highest figure since 2007. As in the Catalan case, the State breaks the downward trend, after having chained two months of year-on-year declines with the figures from May and April.
Also in line with the Catalan analysis, the capital subscribed for the incorporation of new commercial companies in the State has fallen sharply compared to the same month of 2025 – although not as much as in the Principality–: it stood, according to the statistical institute, at 344 million euros, 22.2% less year-on-year.
Regarding the dissolution of companies, it accelerated by 14.6% year-on-year, to 1,814 businesses that had to close their doors. Of the total, 1,520 closed voluntarily, while a hundred declared some type of merger and 193 disappeared for other reasons.