ELSTAT: business turnover up 8.5% in August
Turnover of businesses required to keep double-entry accounts reached €36.04 billion, against €33.22 billion in August 2025. The 14 October release concerns sales, not profits.
Turnover of businesses required to keep double-entry accounts rose 8.5% in August 2026 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the ELSTAT release published on 14 October 2026.
The total reached €36.04 billion, up from €33.22 billion in August 2025. This is a year-on-year comparison: 8.5% is not the change from July.
The sector picture
Among sectors with comparable figures, information and communication recorded the largest increase, at 22.2%, while mining and quarrying fell 15.3%.
Manufacturing rose 16.1%, electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply 16.5%, and construction 12.9%. Wholesale and retail trade, including vehicle and motorcycle repairs, rose 7.5%, while accommodation and food services increased 6.1%.
What the amounts do — and do not — show
The monthly figures come from administrative sources and cover businesses with double-entry accounts for which data are available. They are not a measure of every business regardless of its accounting regime.
Turnover reflects the value of sales, not net profits. The release does not present the increase as inflation-adjusted or as a measure of GDP growth.
Some table entries are withheld because they include atypical transactions and are not comparable. These gaps do not support conclusions about the respective sectors' year-on-year performance.
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