Compiled by: UNEP/GRID-Tbilisi, 1999.
Data source: Department of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, 1999.

Foreign investors are avoiding leading domestic producers in Tbilisi. The largest sphere of foreign interests in Tbilisi is communications (including the most modern electronic communications and cable TV). Investments in non-food industries virtually neglect the traditionally largest local producers and are directed mainly into such ventures sponsored by the state as production of auto-car license plates and driving licenses (more than USD 10 mln.). Foreign and local interests actually coincide only in food and beverage production, where "Coca-Cola" and local ice-cream producers "Samgori" are simultaneously the objects of foreign interests and the largest local producers.