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Business data in Italy. Where the records live.
More than six million businesses are entered in Italy’s Registro delle Imprese, the national register run by InfoCamere for the Chambers of Commerce. Most are micro-firms and artisans, famously clustered into the specialised industrial districts of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna.
What Atlas holds for Italy
Source: the Atlas database, updated automatically.
The official records
The legal source of truth for Italy is Registro Imprese.
Italy’s legal record is the Registro delle Imprese, maintained by the roughly sixty provincial Chambers of Commerce (Camere di Commercio) through their technology arm InfoCamere and published at registroimprese.it, with bulk access via Telemaco. It holds data on over six million businesses and takes in close to a million annual financial statements. Each company carries a REA number, an eleven-digit Partita IVA (VAT) and a Codice Fiscale, while sole proprietors trade as ditte individuali under the same framework.
How to use the register
- Start from the register, not from a bought list. It is the legal record of every company.
- Read the status field. Registers keep closed companies too. See how many have closed in other registers.
- Check the website belongs to the company, with the registration number or a distinguishing name on the page.
Sources
Descriptions are based on the national sources above. Figures in the text are rounded and change over time. Found an error? Write to atlasforgex@proton.me. More countries: business data by country and registers by country.