More than 400,000 companies registered in Serbia

According to that Agency (APR) there are 121,690 registered companies and 278,956 entrepreneurs which is 9,879 more than in 2019. A press release said that 9,176 companies and 29,810 entrepreneurs were registered in 2020 which is 19 percent more companies and 25 percent more entrepreneurs than a year earlier.

Most of the newly registered companies were involved in wholesale trade, computer programming, construction, consulting and management as well as freight transport, postal and Internet retail, engineering and real estate rentals.

Most entrepreneurs registered restaurants, business consulting and management, hairdressers and beauty salons, road transport, vehicle maintenance and technical advising.

A total of 7,982 companies and 22,052 entrepreneurs were deleted from the business registry in 2020, including 5,797 companies and 5,868 entrepreneurs whose bank accounts were frozen for more than two years.