{"id":96005,"date":"2025-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2025\/04\/14\/over-154k-commercial-registrations-issued-in-1q-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:00:00","slug":"over-154k-commercial-registrations-issued-in-1q-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2025\/04\/14\/over-154k-commercial-registrations-issued-in-1q-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 154k commercial registrations issued in 1Q 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>The Com<\/strong>merce Ministry issued over 154k new commercial licenses in 1Q <\/strong>2025<\/strong>, marking a 48.7% increase compared to the same period in 2024, according to the ministry\u2019s quarterly business sector summary bulletin (pdf)<\/a>. The Kingdom implemented over 900 reforms to facilitate business operations, along with reviewing and updating more than 1.2k regulations.<\/p>\n

(** Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links<\/strong> to our background and outside sources.)<\/p>\n

The overall picture:<\/strong> The Kingdom now boasts more than 1.68 mn active commercial registrations, up 4.5% y-o-y. Women took the lead, accounting for 47% of existing licenses, while youth-led ventures amounted to 38% of all registrations. We now host 447k registered companies and 1.2 mn commercial establishments, the bulletin read.<\/p>\n

By region:<\/strong> Riyadh, Makkah, and the Eastern Province combined accounted for 71% of all of the issued commercial registrations for companies. Riyadh alone saw 60k new registrations, followed by Makkah with 26.3k, and the Eastern Province with 24.8k.<\/p>\n

MEANWHILE- <\/strong>LLCs accounted for the majority of new company registrations (37.1k), with far fewer opting for general partnerships (123) and joint stock companies (103), the bulletin showed.<\/p>\n

Promising sectors: <\/strong>The report flagged strong momentum in several high-growth sectors during the quarter, particularly non-residential construction with 116k licenses (+11% y-o-y), car services with 25.6k licenses (+23% y-o-y), and hotel registrations with 15k licenses (+31% y-o-y). Other sectors that showed strong momentum include travel agencies (+29% y-o-y), reality technologies (+39% y-o-y), film and video production (+24% y-o-y), cloud computing (+33% y-o-y), and telemedicine (+37% y-o-y).<\/p>\n

AND- Saudi Arabia ranked <\/strong>among the top 10 <\/strong>fastest-growing e-commerce markets<\/strong>, standing at 41.3k existing registrations in 1Q 2025, up 6% y-o-y.<\/p>\n

REMEMBER- <\/strong>The updated Commercial Registration and Trade Name Laws, set to take effect in early 2Q 2025<\/a>, introduced key changes, including a unified national commercial register, a ban on duplicate trade names across sectors, and the inclusion of non-Arabic and alphanumeric characters, among others. The Cabinet signed off on the laws in September<\/a>. Full details are available in our explainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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