Number Of Commercial Juridical Persons Registered In Ra Increases By

NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL JURIDICAL PERSONS REGISTERED IN RA INCREASES BY 3.53% AND OF INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURS DECREASES BY 42.62% IN ONE YEAR

Noyan Tapan
Jul 18 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the data of the Agency
of State Register of Juridical Persons and Individual Entrepreneurs
of the RA Ministry of Justice, 1570 commercial juridical persons
and 3343 individual entrepreneurs were registered in January-May,
2007. As of June 1, 2007 their total number made 54940 and 42469,
respectively. According to the data of the RA National Statistical
Service, as of June 1, 2006, 53067 juridical persons and 74019
individual entrepreneurs were registered: within one year the
number of the juridical persons increased by 3.53% and of individual
entrepreneurs decreased by 42.62%.

525 juridical persons and 804 individual entrepreneurs were liquidated
in January-May, 2007.

1570 juridical persons registered in the above mentioned period of 2007
made investments of nearly 1b 749.5 thousand drams (nearly 4m 872.2
thousand USD). Investments of 636.9m drams were made at 135 enterprises
founded with participation of foreign juridical persons and citizens,
investments of 126.1m drams at 45 joint ventures, and those of 510.8m
drams at 90 enterprises created only with foreign capital.