Goiás registered 38,306 new companies in 2024, breaking the record for the second year in a row. The brand exceeds by about 5 thousand the number of companies registered in 2023, which amounted to 33,847. The previous record was broken at the beginning of November, but only in December was a report published indicating the exact scale of this growth.
The data is taken from the Goiás State Trade Council (Juceg) and only takes into account companies that do not fit the Micro-Individual Entrepreneur (MEI) profile. The head of the Board of Trade, Euclid Barbeau Siqueira, considered the number of new registrations in 2024 astonishing.
“Breaking the record was already a reality, as we reached 2,023 in November. And now we know that there are nearly 5,000 additional businesses, from year to year. This is proof of our efforts to make life easier for those who want to start a business.” “In Goiás it was very successful.”
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According to data recorded by Juceg, 2,030 new non-MEI companies were registered in the state in December alone. There are currently 537,494 active companies in Goiás, if we take into account individual small entrepreneurs, the total number of active companies in the CNPJ is 1,180,509. Of this total, 30.5% are located in Goiânia and 1,999 companies have capital exceeding R$500,000. Aparecida de Goiânia, Anapolis, Rio Verde and Valparaiso complete the top five with the largest number of companies.
The five activities with the highest number of registrations in December 2024 were combined office and administrative support services; Outpatient medical activity is limited to consultations; Business management consulting activities, excluding specific technical consulting; Document preparation and specialized administrative support services; And training in the field of professional and administrative development. Government of Goiás
