The number of producing factories across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reached (6599) with a total funding exceeding 948.3 billion riyals at the end of the first quarter of 2014. The total number of workers in all these factories amounted to 862,717 workers. In its latest statistical report published on its website, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that Riyadh region topped the list of the number of producing factories in the Kingdom of a total of (2896), followed by the Eastern Region (1546) factories and Makkah region with a total number of (1225) factories. The report pointed out that the rest of the factories are distributed in the rest of the Kingdom's regions.
