According to official data provided by the National Agency of Public Registry, in January 2018, number of business entities registered in country was 3 906, 97.2% of which are enterprises and 2.8% are non-enterprise entities. In January, number of enterprises increased by 4.9% and number of non-enterprise entities reduced by 0.9%.
Same trend was observed in relation to the same period of last year: number of enterprises increased by 4.3% and number of non-enterprise entities reduced by 48.6%.
Non-enterprise entities are non-enterprise legal entities, branches of foreign non-enterprise legal entities, public law legal entities.
In January, majority of business entities were registered in the form of sole proprietorship (1 646 entities, i.e. 42,1% of all registered business entities) and limited companies (2 126 entities, i.e. 54.4% of all registered business entities). It is obvious that 96.6% of business entities prefer the above legal status. Within the same period, following entities were registered in the country: 108 non-enterprise entities, branches of 6 foreign enterprises, 9 joint stock companies, 10 cooperatives and 1 joint liability society.
Based on the number of business entities registered in January 2018, top 10 territorial units and growth/reduction trends in relation to previous month and same month of the previous year were revealed.
|
# |
Territorial Unit |
Quantity |
% |
|
|
January 2018 |
January 2017 |
December 2017 |
||
|
1 |
Tbilisi |
1689 |
1,4 |
-8,1 |
|
2 |
Batumi |
256 |
1,6 |
-5,5 |
|
3 |
Kutaisi |
172 |
1,8 |
-1,1 |
|
4 |
Sachkhere |
106 |
120,8 |
-16,5 |
|
5 |
Marneuli |
89 |
4,7 |
-12,7 |
|
6 |
Zugdidi |
77 |
1,3 |
-22,2 |
|
7 |
Rustavi |
74 |
-38,8 |
-37,8 |
|
8 |
Khashuri |
58 |
56,8 |
31,8 |
|
9 |
Gori |
57 |
-24,0 |
-36,0 |
|
10 |
Ozurgeti |
56 |
12,0 |
-24,3 |
