A total of 135,490 companies were active in Serbia last year, of which 112,070 submitted a regular annual financial report, according to the official statistics of the Business Registers Agency (APR).
“Total revenues of domestic companies amounted to 17,772,856 million dinars and are 19.2 percent higher than last year, while total expenditures were reported in the amount of 16,721,985 million dinars, an 18.8 percent increase. The Serbian economy has been profitable for the eighth consecutive year, achieving a positive net result of 864,190 million dinars, which is 26.3 percent higher than the previous year,” reads the APR’s annual newsletter.
Observed by economic sectors, all of them operated profitably, except for the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning sectors. The wholesale and retail sector achieved the best net result, which recorded a profit of 214,917 million dinars, 26.4 percent higher than in the previous year.
At the beginning of 2023, a total of 435,257 companies and small businesses were registered in Serbia. Most of them are registered for wholesale and retail, as well as business consultancies, catering facilities and software development companies, while the most profitable were banks, insurance, mining and oil and gas companies.
(Biznis.rs, 02.11.2023)