How many finishing and fit-out contractors are in Saudi Arabia?
Contractors for plastering, flooring, painting, glazing, joinery and interior fit-out.
144.4K
active registrations list finishing & fit-out contractors activities — 10% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
144,361 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list finishing & fit-out contractors activities as of 16 September 2026 — 10% of all classified registrations, the 2nd-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
39,632 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +32.7% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (47,136), Jeddah (18,572), Makkah (9,334) lead. Relative to its size, Yanbu is the most concentrated: finishing and fit-out contractors make up 1.6× the share they hold nationally.
38.3% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 50,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 144,361
- 10% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 39,632
- +32.7% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 38.3%
- 55,246 of 144,361
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where finishing and fit-out contractors are registered
Column height: finishing and fit-out contractors by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh47,1361.1×
- Jeddah18,5721.2×
- Makkah9,3341.3×
- Dammam6,9161.1×
- Madinah5,5381.0×
- Khobar4,0571.3×
- Buraydah3,4961.0×
- Jubail3,2790.8×
- Taif2,9110.9×
- Najran2,8070.7×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Finishing & fit-out contractors: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Building finishing52,742Activity code 433010
- Ceramic and tile installation9,513Activity code 433041
- Interior and exterior painting8,041Activity code 433072
- Installation of doors, windows, railings, stairs and metal kitchens7,496Activity code 433023
- Shade and screen installation6,022Activity code 433024
- Decoration works5,928Activity code 433061
- Furniture installation5,900Activity code 433093
- Marble installation5,466Activity code 433042
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship88,87161.6%
- LLC54,30437.6%
- JSC4180.3%
- General partnership2550.2%
- Foreign branch2090.1%
- SJSC1600.1%
- Limited partnership1090.1%
- GCC branch35<0.1%
Common questions
How many finishing and fit-out contractors are there in Saudi Arabia?
144,361 active commercial registrations list finishing & fit-out contractors activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most finishing and fit-out contractors?
Riyadh, with 47,136 — 32.7% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 18,572.
Is the number of finishing and fit-out contractors growing?
39,632 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +32.7% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in finishing & fit-out contractors in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in finishing & fit-out contractors?
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