PRESS RELEASE Business navigator SMEs can be an incentive for further development of entrepreneurship in the Krasnodar Territory

On Friday, March 17, 2017, Deputy Head of the Administration (Governor) of the Krasnodar Territory, S.V. Altukhov and State Secretary - Deputy Director General of the SME Corporation N.I. Larionov held a meeting with entrepreneurs. Within the framework of the meeting representatives of the business community were presented with a resource of the Business Navigation Portal of SMEs.

"Our task for today is to work ahead of time in matters of business development. Very valuable and in demand are the knowledge and competencies that we must and can give entrepreneurs. I am confident that using the Business Navigator will help realize the potential of small businesses in the province to the full, "- said Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Sergei Altukhov," - said Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Sergei Altukhov.

Natalia Larionova, Deputy Director General of the SME Corporation, spoke about the services of the Business Navigator for SMEs that will help entrepreneurs realize their projects: "The uniqueness of the SME Business Navigator is the ability to get a full amount of necessary information for opening a business or developing an existing one Business. With the help of the portal you can find out, for example, which business is better to open in your city, where, what investments and documents will be needed for this. Business navigator SMEs will help to make an approximate business plan, calculate the demand for goods and services of the selected business, tell you how many around the competition. "

Natalia Larionova also noted that users of the portal have access to information on public and private real estate offered for rent or for sale. The portal also provides information on the banks closest to the location of the business and their support programs for SMEs. The SME Business Navigator contains complete information on federal and regional programs of state and municipal support for entrepreneurship, including financial and guarantee products of the SME Corporation.

With the help of the portal you can get information about procurement plans of the largest companies with state participation - updated plans of more than 200 largest customers are posted on the system on a weekly basis.

Recall Business-navigator SMEs successfully operates in 169 major cities of Russia.

Representatives of the SME Corporation during the event answered questions of entrepreneurs about the portal's possibilities and further development of the resource, demonstrated by the example of Krasnodar how to open a business in five steps with the help of the Business Navigator of SMEs. Participants of the meeting with the help of the organizers were able to independently test the work of the resource and to register on the portal to access the full list of services.

Within the framework of the visit to the Krasnodar Territory, the employees of the SME Corporation held a number of meetings with representatives of executive authorities, the banking and business community on the implementation of measures of credit and guarantee support for SMEs, expansion of sales markets for small and medium-sized companies through the development of international cooperation, Services of the Corporation through multifunctional centers of state and municipal services.

In the Krasnodar Territory of the Corporation, SMEs provided guarantees and guarantees to SMEs in the amount of 2.2 billion rubles, which allowed them to attract credit resources totaling 2.9 billion rubles.

The SME Corporation was established in June 2015 as an institution for development in the sphere of small and medium-sized businesses. On March 17, 2017, the SME Corporation provided 7,259 guarantees and guarantees to the entities of SMEs in the amount of over 98.7 billion rubles, which allowed entrepreneurs to attract financing for 132.9 billion rubles