Milan, January 16, 2021 – Le anti-Covid closures strangle a sector with 17,000 employed in the region and in Lombardy 35% of businesses are at high risk. To make the point is A.r.i.s.a. the regional association of companies in the sector (member of the Milanese Confcommercio). For the association the further stop at gyms and swimming pools “aggravates the state of great suffering of the sector”.
Lombardy, Arisa notes, was the region that, alone, accounted for 37% of the companies operating in fitness with more than 25 thousand between wellness centers and gyms (out of a national total which, before Covid, numbered 70 thousand). In the Metropolitan City of Milan alone, in 2019, there were 5,200 businesses with 17,000 employees. “Going on like this – explains the director of Arisa, Paolo Uniti – we estimate that the balance sheets of 35% of companies are at high risk and many of them will not be able to make it to spring. With very heavy repercussions also in terms of employment “.
“The situation of the over a thousand Lombard swimming pools – says Angelo Gnerre, Arisa delegate for the swimming facilities sector – and I use the Richter scale for earthquakes as a metaphor: the reference magnitude for swimming pools would be 10 with a consequent tsunami for the balance sheets of our companies 2021: the most optimistic projections are do they estimate a 50% drop with possible repercussions also in 2022 ‘
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