Citizen of Belarus and Cyprus Viktor Prokopenya on June 30 submitted a package of documents to receive the approval of indirect acquisition of 100% of shares in the public joint-stock company Sberbank (Kyiv) via Paritetbank, Belarus to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the press service of the central bank has reported. “At present the…
In January-June Ukraine increased its gas consumption by 2% YoY, to 17.7 billion cubic meters, according to PJSC Main Gas Pipelines of Ukraine. “The production, totaling 10.3 billion cubic meters, shows a stable growth of 3%. The consumption grew by 2%,” reads the report. In addition, in the first half of this year, gas imports…
Ukraine as of June 29 has threshed 313,900 tons of grain and leguminous crops from 95,000 hectares. According to the press service of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, average yield is 33 hundredweights per ha. Some 28,000 tons of winter wheat were threshed on 10,200 ha with the yield of 27.5 hundredweights per ha.…
The State Enterprise “Boryspil International Airport” must conclude an agreement with the Ryanair airline within the next two weeks, Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelian stated. “The Lviv International Airport has already signed a contract with Ryanair, the contract between the Boryspil Airport and Ryanair will be signed within the next two weeks. We significantly…
A fast food restaurant under the KFC brand of a franchise partner of the owner Yum! Brands Inc. (Louisville, the United States) – Global Restaurant Group – Ukraine LLC (GRG) – has been opened in the Magellan shopping center in Kyiv. The press service of the company reported that the new KFC fast food restaurant…
The US investment fund Navigator Principal Investors LLC plans to invest nearly $100 million in the development of the Ukrainian ports and agriculture, the head of the fund Kyle Shostak declared. “We are looking at the ports and agriculture. There are not so many ports in Ukraine. We keep an eye on Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson…
According to the current information of the State Statistics Service, Ukraine’s reserves of grains and pulses totaled 8.84 MMT as of June 1, up by 10.8% YoY (7.98 MMT). Wheat stocks decreased by 22.3%, to 3 MMT against 3.87 MMT reported as of June 1, 2016. Corn stocks are up by 49.5% YoY, amounting to…