A loss in turnover of about 35 billion euros compared to 2019. This is what the wedding world has lost due to the pandemic.
'' 2020 was a terrible year for our sector, we have been in the 'red zone' for 13 months, from March 2020 to today.
It is an incalculable damage for the entire supply chain ", says Luciano Paulillo, president of AIRB (Italian Gift and Favor Association) who highlights how" between dpcm and regional ordinances, which prevented the carrying out of ceremonies and religious festivals, to which is added the closure of churches even during periods of social opening, we have today over a year of total inactivity ''.
The numbers show that at the national level the sector has lost 80 percent of its turnover, equal to 29 billion euros for 2020, while 100 percent from January to March 2021. The association, taking the data as a reference Istat, notes that in 2020 there are 85 thousand marriages against 170 thousand in the same period in 2019 and 182 thousand in 2018;
in Italy between January and July 2020 34,059 marriages were celebrated while in the same period of 2019 there were 101,461 and in 2018 they were 107,990.
In the first quarter of 2020, which suffered the effects of the pandemic only for the month of March, the decrease compared to the same period of 2019 was about 20 percent for marriages, civil unions, consensual separations in the courts.
It is in the second quarter of 2020 that the `` real collapse '' is outlined due to the `` heavy restrictions relating to the celebration of religious marriages during the lockdown, as well as for those aimed at reducing marital status events that take place in the Municipalities ". The decrease compared to the second quarter of 2019 was about 80 percent for marriages, about 60 percent for civil unions and consensual separations / divorces in municipalities and courts. A crisis that puts thousands of jobs at risk. of work.
'' Once the government CIGS is over, we will find a disaster - says Paulillo - Of the 7 thousand shops in Italy selling the favor and confetti article, about 1,500 will not raise the shutter with a loss of 2 thousand jobs to which they are added at least 3 thousand employees of manufacturing and distribution companies. In Italy there are about 1,700 and there will be 200 not to leave again. Five thousand workers who, once they have lost their jobs, how will they keep the
and their families?
Not to mention a large participation of workers, from the sector supply chain, not supported by the protection of the State such as: casual, seasonal or service workers, figures who work with VAT or withholding tax who have not had any refreshment ", he concludes .
