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ROSTOV-ON-DON, October 20 A regional leasing company has provided support to enterprises in the Rostov region in the amount of over 1 billion rubles, the first deputy governor of the region said Alexander Scriabin at the forum «Leasing as a tool for global business cooperation.»
The event was organized by the Regional Leasing Company of the Rostov Region with the support of the regional government and the regional Ministry of Economic Development. The forum brought together representatives of the executive and legislative authorities, the banking sector, business support institutions, leasing companies, suppliers of machinery and equipment, including from Moscow, Vladivostok and Shanghai, China.
«Leasing is a dynamically developing instrument for financing fixed business assets. That is why, on behalf of the governor of the Rostov region, the Regional Leasing Company was created. Over five years of operation, it has concluded over 360 leasing agreements, providing support to more than 270 organizations and entrepreneurs of the Rostov region. The total volume of regional leasing support exceeded 1 billion rubles, more than 650 leased items were transferred to the business,” said Scriabin.
Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the region Sergei Kononenko in his speech also emphasized the demand for leasing support in the region, especially in the context of the development of import-substituting industries.
“For joint discussion at the forum, we identified a wide range of issues: leasing in the agro-industrial sector, in the service sector, the transport industry, optimization of supply chains, working with new suppliers, updating fixed assets,” noted the General Director of the Regional Leasing Company Alexander Ivanishchev.
Forum participants agreed that the Rostov region has created an effective ecosystem of interaction between business, infrastructure and government, which allows entrepreneurs to receive government support. This is largely possible thanks to the implementation of the national project “Small and Medium Enterprises”.
The Rostov region is among the top 10 leading regions for the development of SMEs in the country. Small and medium-sized businesses in the region represent 175 thousand entities. These enterprises employ over 700 thousand people.