{"id":3167,"date":"2021-07-22T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2021-07-29T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:00:44","slug":"increasing-company-registrations-in-the-wholesale-and-online-retail-sectors-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/07\/22\/increasing-company-registrations-in-the-wholesale-and-online-retail-sectors-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing company registrations in the wholesale and online retail sectors in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Research from the school assesses daily company registrations and shows that the wholesale and retail sectors have been showing most growth in the UK since the first national lockdown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fr8ac\" data-offset-key=\"cujtu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"cujtu-0-0\">\n<div>\n<p>Researchers led by principal investigator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2171\/savagar-anthony\">Dr Anthony Savagar<\/a> along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/440\/duncan-alfred\">Dr Alfred Duncan<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2854\/galanakis-yannis\"> Yannis Galanakis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/451\/leon-ledesma-miguel\">Professor Miguel Le\u00f3n-Ledesma<\/a> have been using the basic data from the Companies House since the pandemic began in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The register records every company in the UK with its incorporation date, post code and industry. This makes it possible to measure daily company registrations by region and sector of activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fr8ac\" data-offset-key=\"8qu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"8qu-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"8qu-0-0\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3168\" style=\"width: 896px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2021\/07\/Registrations-capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3168 size-full\" title=\"Yannis Galanakis\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2021\/07\/Registrations-capture.jpg\" alt=\"Firm Creations July 2021\" width=\"896\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firm Creation Registrations, Interactive Graph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"8qu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fr8ac\" data-offset-key=\"cujtu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"cujtu-0-0\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fr8ac\" data-offset-key=\"8jt56-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"8jt56-0-0\">\n<p>Use the interactive map to hover over the bars and read more about the research project <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/dwHv50FAvUX\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the school assesses daily company registrations and shows that the wholesale and retail sectors have been showing most growth in the UK since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2021\/07\/22\/increasing-company-registrations-in-the-wholesale-and-online-retail-sectors-in-2021\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94129,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}