Company & LLP Registration Trends in India — February 2016
In short
February 2016: 10,932 Company and LLP registrations in India, with entity-wise shares and historical February comparison from 2016 onward.
February 2016 — Key Observations
February 2016 recorded 10,932 registrations. It is the first February in this series and the baseline for every later February comparison. Private Limited made up (74.9%) of the month, LLPs (19.7%) and OPCs (3.6%). Compared with the previous month, January 2016 (8,948), registrations were up (22.2%).
February 2016 recorded 10,932 Company and LLP registrations in India. This page places the month in context by comparing February 2016 with the earlier available February data from 2016 onward.
Private Companies: 8,190 (74.9%) • OPC: 397 (3.6%) • LLP: 2,154 (19.7%)
Total registrations: 10,932
February Registration Trend — 2016 to 2016
Each row below represents the same calendar month — February — so the comparison is not distorted by normal differences between months.
| Year | Private | OPC | Public | Foreign | LLP | Total | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 8,190 | 397 | 177 | 14 | 2,154 | 10,932 | — |
What the February 2016 data shows
Private Companies formed (74.9%) of all February 2016 registrations, while LLPs accounted for (19.7%). OPCs contributed (3.6%). Public and Foreign Companies together represented a relatively small share of the month's total.
How to read this data
Registration numbers measure the creation of legal entities. They do not indicate whether those entities later became profitable, raised funding, employed people or remained active. The purpose of this series is to study incorporation activity and changes in preferred legal structures over time.
Source: MCA monthly incorporation data compiled in the CompanysRegistration.com Registration Trend dataset. Missing MCA source periods, where applicable, are disclosed and are not estimated.
Top 5 Business Activities — February 2016
These are the five leading original MCA economic-activity descriptions recorded among new entities in this specific month, ranked separately by legal structure. Each percentage is the share of registrations in the corresponding structure, not all entities combined. MCA's older broad activity categories are not directly equivalent to newer NIC-2008 two-digit divisions.
Private Limited Companies
| # | MCA business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Services |
3,943 (48.14%)
|
| 2 | Trading |
854 (10.43%)
|
| 3 | Construction |
570 (6.96%)
|
| 4 | Community, personal & Social Services |
464 (5.67%)
|
| 5 | Real Estate and Renting |
434 (5.30%)
|
Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)
| # | MCA business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Services |
809 (37.56%)
|
| 2 | Trading |
284 (13.18%)
|
| 3 | Real Estate and Renting |
233 (10.82%)
|
| 4 | Community, personal & Social Services |
193 (8.96%)
|
| 5 | Construction |
185 (8.59%)
|
One Person Companies (OPCs)
| # | MCA business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Services |
225 (56.68%)
|
| 2 | Community, personal & Social Services |
60 (15.11%)
|
| 3 | Trading |
32 (8.06%)
|
| 4 | Real Estate and Renting |
13 (3.27%)
|
| 5 | Construction |
12 (3.02%)
|
Activity methodology: Counts are calculated from the month-specific original MCA incorporation workbook, after separating registered Private Limited Companies, LLPs and OPCs and checking their totals against the verified monthly master. The names are the source workbook's broad categories. MCA monthly incorporation data.
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