COLUMBUS — Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has announced 9,401 new entities filed to do business in Ohio during February 2016. This is 1,483 more businesses than filed during February 2015 when 7,918 entities were formed.

In February, Secretary Husted announced that 2016 was on track to be another record-setting year based on January’s business filings which were up 14.9 percent compared to filings in January 2015. The trend has continued into February and business filings in 2016 are up 16.8 percent with 2,602 more entities filing in 2016 than at the same point in 2015.