YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. By data of the State Register of Legal Entities and Private Businessmen of the RA Ministry of Justice, 2,798 commercial legal entities and 13,956 private businessmen were registered in January-September 2008, with their total number making 58,598 and 63,263 respectively as of October 1, 2008. By data of the RA National Statistical Service, there were 55,708 legal entities and 46,881 private businessmen as of October 1, 2007. The number of legal entities grew by 5.2%, that of private businessmen by 34.94% in the past year. 747 legal entities and 1,141 private businessmen were wound up in January-September 2008. 2,798 legal entities registered in January-September 2008 made investments of 17 bln 808.08 mln drams (about 58 mln 230.6 thousand USD). Investments of 9 bln 161.35 mln drams were made in 283 enterprises founded with foreign capital, including investments of 7 bln 102.42 mln drams in 167 enterprises founded by only foreign legal entities and citizens and investments of 2 bln 58.93 mln drams in 116 joint ventures.

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