Private Investment Indicators

(Unit : Millions of Baht or as stated)

MAR 2010

FEB 2010

JAN 2010

DEC 2009

NOV 2009

OCT 2009

1

Private Investment Index (2000 = 100) 1/

178.70

173.30

169.60

165.88

162.07

159.21

2

Domestic cement sales (1,000 metric tons)

2,389.25

2,161.98

2,162.12

2,053.57

2,001.81

2,003.83

3

Domestic commercial car sales (units)

39,029.00

30,752.00

27,869.00

39,832.00

32,296.00

29,733.00

4

Import of capital goods at 2000 prices (Millions of Baht) 2/

126,094.00

105,036.00

106,671.00

108,104.00

108,228.00

108,728.00

5

Domestic Machinery Sales at 2000 prices (Millions of Baht)

....

48,163.00

45,561.00

49,174.00

45,675.00

44,195.00

6

Construction areas permitted in municipal zone (thousand sq. metres)

7

   Whole kingdom

1,758.19

1,587.14

1,215.88

2,927.12

1,565.98

1,437.05

8

      Residential

1,345.52

1,086.56

866.49

1,290.57

1,094.02

1,058.10

9

      Commercial

196.68

361.48

186.46

1,264.22

266.35

222.04

10

      Industrial & others

215.99

139.10

162.93

372.34

205.61

156.91

11

   Bangkok metropolis

1,086.66

814.35

599.31

2,041.73

888.62

754.03

12

   Central region (excl. Bangkok)

281.59

383.05

275.23

305.29

313.92

190.61

13

   Other regions

389.94

389.75

341.34

580.10

363.43

492.41

14

Factories permitted to establish by Ministry of Industry

15

   Permitted by Department of Industrial Works :

16

      No. of factories 

76

46

57

61

57

65

17

      Total investment

10,370.02

5,214.93

473,247.68

7,959.17

11,243.46

9,828.72

18

   Permitted by Provincial Industry Office :

19

      No. of factories 

305

230

188

263

253

298

20

      Total investment

11,565.70

10,673.37

2,894.96

3,804.15

9,919.94

4,611.39

21

Capital investment of business registered at Ministry of Commerce

22

   Newly registered

....

15,864.95

11,872.15

11,414.14

25,437.63

16,533.57

23

   Capital increase

....

28,437.48

35,080.47

56,282.88

22,544.76

37,748.51

24

   No. of ceased operation

....

748

1,254

6,288

1,760

1,498

25

Promotional privileges from Board of Investment

26

   No. of net applications received

116

103

92

551

124

123

27

      Total investment (Billions of Baht)

30.8

22.3

56.0

333.1

61.1

30.9

28

   No. of applications approved

123

120

111

98

126

92

29

      Total investment (Billions of Baht)

35.6

16.3

36.3

21.3

72.4

11.7

30

   No. of promotion certificates issues

122

104

94

96

86

89

31

      Total investment (Billions of Baht)

33.1

24.3

35.8

27.2

25.3

26.2

32

   No. of promoted firm started operation

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

33

      Total investment (Billions of Baht)

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.