Colorado added new businesses slower in Q4

BOULDER — In the fourth quarter of 2018, about  27,000 corporations, nonprofits and other entities submitted new business paperwork to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, according to a new report from University of Colorado’s Leeds Business Research Division.

While the state is adding new business, the fourth quarter filings “mark an 8.2 percent dip from the previous quarter, a sharper drop than usual for the season,” the report notes.

Still, the roughly 27,000 new business filings is 5.1 percent higher than the final quarter of 2017.

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The number of filings for business renewal was up 7 percent from the same period in the previous year. Dissolutions were also up by about 1 percent.

“Despite some uncertainty at the national level, the data shows Coloradans continue to open new businesses,” said Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a prepared statement. “I am optimistic that this, along with the projected increase in employment, indicates that Colorado will have steady economic growth in 2019.”