Ukraine’s Investment Attractiveness Index in H2 totaled 2.85 points compared to 2.88 points in H1 and 2.57 points in H2 2015, according to a study of the European Business Association (EBA) conducted on the basis of a poll of top managers of companies in November and December. “Confidence of business has not changed a lot…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has opened a regional office in Kharkiv. “Eastern Ukraine is also important for our work. It is important for the economy and for our cooperation not only in terms of large-scale projects, but also in terms of the development of small and medium-sized businesses. We are opening…
Subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab (Moscow) Kaspersky Lab Ukraine LLC (Kyiv) has announced its liquidation under the decision of its owner. Claims of creditors can be submitted within two months from the moment of the publication of the announcement (until February 14, 2017). Andriy Polischuk has been appointed liquidator of the company. (Interfax/Business World Magazine)
In January-November the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine increased by 2.9% YoY at the expense of rising production volumes of plant growing commodities, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine announced on December 14. In particular, the production of plant growing products grew by 5.3%, while livestock products output was down by 2.9%. According…
Ukraine will launch a dialogue with the European Union in 2017 to promote the development of the country’s industry, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Representative of Ukraine Natalia Mykolska has said. “In 2017 we start the industrial dialogue with the European Commission to stimulate the Ukrainian industry”, she wrote on her Twitter account…
Ukraine’s Mevics has raised $500,000 from Britain’s UBTower consulting company. The company has not presented other details of the deal. The Mevics team has created a gadget, which controls posture and synchronizes it with smartphone using Bluetooth. The price of the gadget would vary from $80 to $100. The team is working on the new…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has postponed redemption of Series A, B and C 4.8 billion UAH bonds issued by the national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy for one year (until the end of 2017) to allow the company to have working capital in the conditions of permitting Ukrainians to pay 50% of the heating bills in…