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Value of rendered services to enterprises grew by 2.5% and persons employed increased by 5.0%
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Value of rendered services to enterprises grew by 2.5% and persons employed increased by 5.0% - 2015
30 November 2016

Summary

In 2015, the value of rendered services from activities connected to Services Rendered to Enterprises grew by 2.5%, having totaled EUR 13 187 million. The 108 527 companies that provided these services, employed 350 970 people (+5.0% the year before) and generated a Gross Value Added (GVA) of EUR 7 471 million (+2.0% in 2014). Despite the increase of GVA, a reduction of 4.3% in gross operating surplus was registered.
The ‘Employment activities’ (whose main activity is the provision of services of temporary employment undertakings) stood out as the sector where the value of the rendered services increased the most in the last two years (6.5% in 2015 and 17.4% in 2014). This sector was also the greatest contributor (3 percentage points) for the growth in number of persons employed, in 2015.
Among the main products offered, although Consultancy remained the most important, with above-average growth, the services of temporary employment undertakings for transport personnel, supply, logistics or industrial storage grew the most (+10.5%). A poorer performance was observed in the consulting services in supply chain management and other management consultancy with a decrease of 16.2% in the value of services provided.


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