An estimated 1,206 small and medium-sized companies took loans in the first five months of the current fiscal year that started in March. According to the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade…
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The lump-sum tax rate of 1.1 million small- and medium-sized enterprises has been set at zero, the head of the Iranian National Tax Administration, Davoud Manzour, tweeted on Friday.
Plans are underway to create an Iranian consortium to join the Enterprise Europe Network with the aim of connecting Iranian small- and medium-sized enterprises with their counterparts in Europe…
Director General of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization Sadeq Najafi and South Korea’s Deputy Minister of SMEs and Startups Choi Su-gyu signed a memorandum of understanding…
A total of 35 small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises are currently being set up in Iran with foreign investment, a deputy industries minister said.
Sadeq Najafi added that 28…
Clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises earned a total of $274 million from exports in the last fiscal year (March 2017-18).
Iran’s small- and medium-sized enterprises saw a 28% year-on-year increase in the value of investment guarantees issued for them in the last fiscal year (March 21, 2017-18), according to the…
Exports from Iran’s small- and medium-sized enterprises amounted to $2.3 billion in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2018), the deputy head of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks…
Amirkabir University of Technology has launched a business counseling platform with the aim of helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the industrial sector grow. Over 400…
Companies and industries affiliated with Iran’s Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization have exported $1.3 billion worth of commodities since the beginning of the current Iranian year…
As a part of government’s plan to boost small- and medium-sized enterprises through the allocation of credit, since the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal on March 21, Iranian banks have…
In a letter, the Central Bank of Iran’s Governor Valiollah Seif has called on all governors across the country to undertake strict and effective supervision over how bank loans are allocated to…
According to Iranian banking system’s projections for the fiscal year to March 20, 2018, small- and medium-sized enterprises will receive up to 500 trillion rials ($) worth of loans, which…
Deputy Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade Ali Yazdani said exports by Iranian small- and medium-sized enterprises reached $800 million in the first half of the current Iranian year (March…
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran joined hands with the heads of two key ministries late Monday to coordinate and accelerate efforts to implement a stimulus package worth 500 trillion rials…
South Korean and Iranian private sector companies signed 10 memoranda of understanding on technology transfer on Sunday.
Bank of Industry and Mine has doled out 23 trillion rials ($613 million) in loans to small- and medium-sized enterprises since March 2016 as a part of the stimulus scheme for SMEs, the bank’s…
The government plans to allocate 200 trillion rials ($5.3 billion) to prop up 10,000 enterprises in the current Fiscal year (March 2017-18), the chairman of Iran’s Small Industries and…
Seven thousand jobs were created following the government’s allocation of $4.5 billion in loans to small- and medium-sized enterprises in the fiscal March 2016-17, the Ministry of Industries,…
Tehran has seen more than a few new faces ever since the lifting of sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear energy program and the reopening of the country to global trade.
To…
As many as 11,232 small- and medium-sized enterprises have received an aggregate of 79 trillion rials ($1.97 billion) in loans during the 10 months to January 19, 2017, according to the chairman…
Only 67% of small businesses feel represented by politicians in their respective country’s decision-making process, said a research report issued by Sage Middle East.
Small- and medium-sized enterprises have attracted $1.84 billion in foreign direct investment since President Hassan Rouhani took office in August 2013, of which $653 million have been invested…
Some 20,000 industrial units have emerged from recession since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2016), the deputy minister of industries, mining and trade said.
Iran Mercantile Exchange, SMEs Investment Guarantee Fund and Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization have signed a memorandum of understanding to support the growth of small- and…

