Sterlitamak forum outlined points of growth for republican small and medium business

The II Republican forum-exhibition «Business. Little Towns and Territories – Growth Points», taken place in Sterlitamak on November 30, became the important event in business community life of Bashkortostan. In total more than two thousand people participated in it.

As it was informed earlier, the President of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov during his working trip to Sterlitamak took part in the round-table conference «Reformatting of support programs for small and medium entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation» and made a report at the forum opening.

Within the limits of the forum the thematic exhibition took place, seminars, master classes and round-table conferences concerning business development were held.

As the press-service of the Ministry of Economic Development RB informs, variants of state support and initiatives of public organisations on advancement of goods manufactured by republican commodity producers in the internal and external markets were considered at the forum. Bari Alibasov, the business trainer and adviser from Moscow spent an interesting master class concerning start-ups. Specific proposals on support programs reformatting of small and medium entrepreneurship for the purpose of territories development were announced on the round-table conference organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry RB. Legal issues of business protection and the first results of special franchising programs were considered at the forum.

The solemn ceremony of winners rewarding of the republican competition «Businessman of the Year-2012» became the forum culmination.