Total 79,300 firms set up in seven months: GSO
Total 79,300 firms set up in seven months: GSO
About 79,300 new businesses were established in Viet Nam with total registered capital of VND999.4 trillion (nearly US$43 billion) in the first seven months of 2019, data from the General Statistics Office (GSO) has revealed.
The number of newly-established companies was up 4.6 per cent year on year and registered capital rose 29.6 per cent compared to last year’s seven-month period.
In the first seven-month period of 2018, the number of new firms was up 3.9 per cent year on year and their capital was up 11.6 per cent.
New firms tended to get bigger in the first seven months of this year as average registered capital per business was VND12.6 billion (US$494,000), up 23.9 per cent year on year.
But in July, the number of new firms was down 4.7 per cent yearly to more than 12,300 firms. Their registered capital was VND139.2 trillion, down nearly 27 per cent.
Existing firms in the first seven months increased their capital by VND1.47 quadrillion (US$63.5 billion), bringing total registered capital among Vietnamese firms to VND2.47 quadrillion.
Newly-founded companies also employed 743,900 new labourers, up 19.3 per cent from the previous year.
The increases of both number of new firms and their capital show local firms are getting stronger amid an improved business climate, according to the GSO.
Seventy-one per cent of all newly-founded companies are operating in the services sector. Other major fields of business are industrial and construction (27.2 per cent) and agriculture, aquaculture and forestry (1.4 per cent), the report says.
In addition, more than 23,100 companies halted business operations in the seven-month period, up 15.6 per cent year on year, while the number of dissolved firms was up a fifth to 9,300.
Most of the companies being dissolved and halted were small-d with charter capital of less than VND10 billion.
More than 11,800 companies’ licences were revoked between January and July.
