MSP Corporation appointed the spheres in which most companies opened in 2024

“We see that personnel agencies, IT and scientific companies, as well as delivery services in the list of industries that lead to an increase in the number of entrepreneurs, are not the first time at the head of the list. This is explained by the high demand of these areas among businesses with final consumers, ”said Alexander Isaevich, general director of the SME Corporation.

He pointed out that among those who occupied the first positions of the sectors, the production of video content is distinguished, explained by the legalization of bloggers that began last year. “In the last place in the increase in the number of small and medium enterprises is the production of tobacco products, where the SME number decreased by 16%,” added the main administrator.

Also at SME Corporation shared data on the number of employees in the SME field. The greatest increase in the number of employees in absolute terms in 2024 was observed in public catering, health and construction of buildings, the greatest reduction in wholesale and retail trade.

According to last year’s results, the number of people employed in the SME sector amounted to 29.5 million people or 39% of Russia’s total working population, Isaevich recalled. At the same time, in some regions, small and medium enterprises provide more than half of the works. These include Moscow, St. Petersburg (61%each), Kalmykia (53%), as well as the Novosibirsk region (50%).

Previously, the Federal Fiscal Service said that SME number in the country for a month increased by 30.6 thousand, and companies in the field of microbusity demonstrated the main increase. The number of microenterprisas during this period increased by 31.1 thousand, to 6.37 million, the number of small businesses decreased by 436, to 226.17 thousand and average, in 14, up to 20.9 thousand.