Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Cambodia sees 44% rise in new company registrations in 7 months


3 September 2014

Cambodia has granted operating licenses to 2,424 new companies in the first seven months of 2014, up 44% compared with 1,688 firms over the same period last year.

Foreign companies accounted for 1,076, an increase of 32 percent as local registrations saw a 54% rise to 1,348. Spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said foreign firms are mostly operated by Chinese, South Koreans, Japanese and Vietnamese and they are doing businesses in garment, footwear, agriculture, agro-industry, tourism, construction, and real estate.

Last year, the Southeast Asian nation received 2,986 new companies, down 12% due to post-election crisis, which just ended last month.

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