PETERSBURG LIGHT INDUSTRY developing dynamically
In the first ten months of this year, industrial production in the northern capital increased by 14.3%, with growth seen in almost all the sectors. These figures in the quarterly report submitted territorial body of the Federal State Statistics Service in Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region.
The best performance - in the field of light industry to the nine months of last year, the volume of textile and clothing production has increased 1.6 times, and the skin (products from) and footwear - by 2.5 times. Growth of 46% was recorded in the field of electronic and optical instrumentation, 23% - in the steel industry, a 22% increase in the production of vehicles and equipment, etc.
In the underdogs hit the chemical industry, to reduce production by more than 10%, a 3.4% drop was recorded and food producers (including beverages and tobacco).
