New business registrations up 11% in February
February saw 6,356 new private companies registered across the country, an increase of 11 per cent from the same month last year, but a 9-per-cent drop from January, when 6,965 firms were logged.
The Commerce Ministry’s Business Development Department released the figures on Monday.
The combined value of the firms registered in February was Bt17.63 billion, down 35 per cent from the February 2017 and down 2 per cent from January this year.
February also saw 810 companies registered as closing, a 23-per-cent increase from the same month last year, but a 40-per-cent decrease from January.
