OREANDA-NEWS. April 03, 2013. It was registered 574 enterprises in January and 627 enterprises in February, the State Registration Chamber reports. Most of them or 59% were registered in the municipality of Chisinau, the rest being registered in territorial offices of the State Registration Chamber.

As of January, 1, 2013 the state register of legal entities has contained information about 164.57 thou. companies of which 50% (81.8 thou.) are limited liability companies, 40% (65.7 thou.) are individual enterprises and 3% (4.7 thou.) are stock associations.

Close to 54% of enterprises registered in Moldova are wholesalers and retailers, 12% are processing companies; 6% are agricultural ones, 3% are real estate companies; 3% are running hotel business and 3% are building companies.