Small and medium-sized businesses

Alexandru Bădăreu, Executive Director of Forța Fermierilor Association, announced his resignation at the General Assembly of the organization. He will be replaced by Alexandru Slusari, who held this position during the previous mandate of Forța Fermierilor’s governing bodies.

Fagura, a crowdfunding platform based in the Republic of Moldova, has attracted investors from the Bravva Angels business angel community in a €1.5 million convertible funding round raised over the past year, according to a Bravva Angels press release.

The government planned to increase by 21% the amount of subsidies granted to employers for creating jobs for persons with disabilities. Currently, the amount of state support can vary from 1000 lei to 6000 lei per month per employee. After the increase, the subsidies will range from 1210 lei to 7260 lei per month.

The euro area labor market showed modest improvement in January 2026. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to a record low of 6.1%, down from 6.2% in December 2025 and 6.3% a year earlier.

A new factory of the company “Brodecchi” S.R.L., one of the major producers of bakery products in Moldova, will be built on the site of the old one, following the model of its modernized production in the city of Orhei. It is planned to equip the production facility with modern equipment, as well as to expand the premises and improve working conditions.

There is an acute shortage of judges in Moldovan courts, caused by mass resignations. This seriously hampers the handling of insolvency cases.

Fifteen Moldovan small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) carried out an analysis of their companies’ activities in terms of the real and necessary level of digitalization.

The Ministry of Finance intends to change the criteria by which enterprises are categorized as “micro”, “small”, “medium” and “large”.

Artificial intelligence is used at the enterprises of Bellegprom Concern, which includes more than 60 light industry enterprises in Belarus. First of all, it is used to develop product design.

Employers from all regions of the country – from Gagauzia to Falesti, including companies created by people from Ukraine, were included in the top of the best employers in 2025, according to the National Employment Agency.

In 2025, the Investment Agency (Invest Moldova) attracted 17 foreign investors to the country in the sectors of energy, IT and BPO, financial services, electronics and automotive, agri-food and textile production. Total investments amounted to $46.14 million and 263 new jobs were created.

The microfinance sector (non-bank credit organizations) in Moldova maintained high profitability at the end of last year, despite the tightening of requirements, reports Logos Press.

The artificial intelligence market continues to grow at double-digit rates, but behind the facade of technological optimism, questions are mounting about the quality of solutions, marketing practices and the actual effectiveness of implementations, according to Logos Press.

Ukrainian business in Latvia has flourished in recent years: the number of enterprises has increased on the back of investments of 137 million euros, according to Logos Press.

Grants of up to 50 thousand euros are offered by international donors to groups of small and medium agricultural producers of field crop seeds in Moldova, Logos Press reports.

Supermarkets will be required to place information about the country of origin of food products directly on price tags next to the price, Logos Press reported.

During the external audit of the state institution Organization for the Development of Entrepreneurship (ODA), the Chamber of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova revealed a low level of use of available resources. About 70 million lei of the Fund for Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth of Moldova during 2022-2023 were not used to support entrepreneurs.

In recent years, the debate on the regulation of cross-border marketplaces such as Temu, Aliexpress and similar platforms has intensified in Moldova in the context of protecting the domestic market and competing with local retail.

At least 24 enterprises will receive Swiss funding totaling 1.85 million euros under the grant agreement for the project “Increasing the energy sustainability of SMEs in Moldova”, Logos Press reported.

The Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization has unveiled a new strategic vision for supporting the entrepreneurial environment for 2026. It envisages a reduction in grants and an increase in other forms of funding, Logos Press reports.