At a meeting of the St. Petersburg government at Smolny today, August 17, adopted a program of development and support of small and medium enterprises in St. Petersburg in 2012-2015 year. As the correspondent BakuToday ¸ funding program will be 3.3 billion rubles from the budget of St. Petersburg.
Head of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade (CEDIPT) of the Government of St. Petersburg Evgeny Elin said that out of 2.6 million employed in the economy of the city population of 1.2 million work in small businesses. “Half the population of the city does not sit on the neck of the state and large corporations, itself provides,” – said Elin. Small and medium enterprises provide 26.6% of tax revenue, as much as bring large city taxpayers.
Yellin said that the average lifetime of a small business in St. Petersburg – about 6 years old, and only 50% of businesses survive the first year. Nevertheless, in St. Petersburg – 34% commerce, 75% – catering, domestic service 90% – this small business. In this case, according to Elin, “if the average salary in” Gazprom “- 68 thousand rubles, the average for St. Petersburg – 27 thousand rubles, a small business – about 20 thousand rubles.” The main problems of small and medium-sized businesses – is the lack of financial resources, the high cost of rent and lack of qualified personnel.
Yellin said that the number of small enterprises of St. Petersburg in the European market takes 18th place, 40% of the municipal order provide small businesses. Governor of St. PeterburgaValentina Matvienko emphasized that “the first time CEDIPT compared the situation with a small business in St. Petersburg with the European market.”
In St. Petersburg, has signed contracts for the 1700 purchase of premises for small businesses. This was announced by Head of the Committee for State Property Management (Kuga) Dmitry Kurakin. “This active movement to redeem the premises there is nowhere else in Russia, – said Governor Valentina Matvienko, the city – we have acted properly when applied to the federal government with this initiative, this ensures more stable operation of small and medium-sized enterprises.”
