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43.6% Latvian households make ends meet with difficulty
15.03.2018Data of the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) show that in 2017 the share of households admitting that pay for usual necessary expenses with difficulty or great difficulty constituted 43.6%, which is 1.5 percentage points more than in 2016.
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Small Planet Group targets further growth after 45% revenue rise in 2017
15.03.2018Lithuanian-owned Small Planet Group, the owner of the charter carrier Small Planet Airlines, targets further growth in 2018 after boosting revenue by 45% last year, reports LETA/BNS.
11,400 Lithuanians paid over EUR 3,000 monthly salary in October
15.03.2018Some 11,373 people with full-time jobs in Lithuania October 2017 received a monthly salary of over 3,000 euros, with 9,816 of them employed in the private sector and 1,557 in the public sector, Statistics Lithuania said on Thursday, writes LETA/BNS.
Euroapotheca buys Ulikooli Apteek
15.03.2018Euroapotheca, a company of the Vilniaus Prekyba Group controlled by Lithuanian businessman Nerijus Numavicius, has purchased the Estonian pharmacy chain Ulikooli Apteek, informs LETA/BNS.
Latvian ports see cargo turnover fall 14.3% in January-February
15.03.2018In the first two months of this year, all Latvian ports together handled 10.242 million tons of cargo, down 14.3% from the same period in 2017, informs LETA, according to the information released by the Transport Ministry.
14% Lithuanian workers paid minimum or lower wages
Some 13.6% of Lithuania's working population in October 2017 were paid the minimum monthly salary or less, with more than half of them working part-time, the country's statistics office said on Thursday, cites LETA/BNS.
Yandex.Taxi launches in Riga
Russian-based Internet-related services provider Yandex has launched its online taxi-hailing service Yandex.Taxi in Latvia, the company's representatives told LETA.
“Knowing entrepreneurship”: challenges for the Baltics’ authorities 
