European businesses will invest in rebuilding Ukraine through the UIF. At the first EU-Ukraine Investment Conference in Warsaw, the EU called on European companies to invest in Ukraine’s restoration and reconstruction. Interested European companies can submit their...
An international tobacco products producer plans to restore its 28.5% share of the Ukrainian market in one to two years. Philip Morris International (PMI) lost about half of its 28.5% Ukrainian market share after the war began , which led to the closing of its factory near Kharkiv. So far, the company has restored about...
International manufacturers of building materials are buying up land in Ukraine to construct industrial facilities for Ukraine’s reconstruction. According to CBRE Ukraine, many international companies producing building materials, in anticipation of the post-war rebuilding of Ukraine, have already acquired or are in the process of acquiring la...
Ukraine has increased its annual arms production to $30B but has only $10B to purchase weapons for the military. Ukrainian enterprises that comprise the defense-industrial complex can annually manufacture products with a total value of $30B, Minister of Strategic Industries Herman Smetanin said. Ukraine has alre... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseIndustryUkraine #HermanSmetanin #UkrainianWeapons #WeaponsProduction
The co-founder of one of Ukraine’s largest supermarket chains is investing over $21M in a cottage town near Kyiv and will open shopping centers in small towns. BGV Development, a real estate development company from co-owner of the ATB supermarket chain, Gennady Butkevych, is investing in a premium cottage town near Kyiv, Equides Villas, that will be built n... #ATBmarket #BGV #CottageTown #EquidesClub #investments #ShoppingCenters
A Ukrainian investment fund is expanding its retail space portfolio in Poland to €300M. A leader in Polish commercial real estate, the Newgate Investment Fund belongs to the founder of the chain of Comfy stores, Stanislav Ronis. The value of the company’s portfolio is already estim... #Comfy #CommercialRealEstate #investments #NewgateInvestmentFund #Poland #ShoppingCenters
A Ukrainian pipe manufacturer invests $1B to maintain competitiveness in the global market. Over the past several years, Interpipe, a Ukrainian producer of pipes and railway wheels, has invested about $1B in the construction of a modern electric steelmaking complex – Interpipe Steel, which a... #EcoModernization #ForeignMarket #Interpipe #InterpipeSteelUkraine #investments #UkraineEconomy
Ukraine is preparing to restart concession projects in ports to attract investment. The Ministry of Infrastructure is preparing new concession projects and restarting those whose implementation was stopped in Ukrainian ports, said Tymur Tkachenko, deputy head of the department. ̶... #ConcessionsUkraine #DanubePort #ifc #investments #SeaPortConcession #SeaPortsUkraine
What is preventing the construction of new renewable energy capacities in Ukraine? The accumulation of debt owed to producers in the renewable energy sector hinders the construction of new capacities, which are critically important for overcoming Ukraine’s electricity shortage... #GreenEnergyUkraine #GuaranteedBuyer #RenewableEnergy #RESinvestments
Ukrainian enterprises are reorienting to the European market because of the war. Mauro Longobardo, CEO of metallurgical giant ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, said that the company is recovering from the losses of the previous two years but has not yet broken even. In 2024, the plant los... #ArcelorMittal #CBAM #EuropeanIntegration #investments #MauroLongobardo #MetallurgyUkraine
A Ukrainian investment company will soon start construction of a glass factory in the Kyiv region. The EFI Group plans to build the glass factory in the spring of 2025. “This is a very complex project; we have been working on it for two years. I hope that by the end of the year we will be abl... #EFIgroup #GlassFactory #GlassProduction #investments #kyiv #UkraineRecovery
The SPFU found an buyer for the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi port after the 13th attempt – $2.6 million will be paid for the asset. On November 8, the State Property Fund (SPFU) held an auction for the privatization of the single property complex, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Trade Port, the 13th attempt. The seaport’s starting... #BilhorodDnistrovskyySeaPort #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU #TopOffer
The World Bank will provide Ukraine over $2B, and the EIB will strengthen recovery support. The World Bank will provide $750M to Ukraine within the Support for Reconstruction through Smart Fiscal Management (SURGE) project framework, which supports the institutional reforms that are necessar... #EIB #investments #UkraineInvestmentFramework #UkraineRecovery #worldbank
The National Energy and Climate Plan requires over $40B in investment by 2030. Deputy Minister of Economy Oleksiy Sobolev reported: “According to our preliminary estimates, the realization of the goals of the National Energy and Climate Plan requires significant investment... #ClimateNeutrality #DREAM #investments #OleksiySobolev #RenewableEnergyUkraine #UkraineRecovery
Concorde Capital will compete with DTEK and is building a $1B energy company. Investment company Concorde Capital is working build an energy company worth $1B, company founder Ihor Mazepa said. Concorde Capital and its partners, including the American DFC, have invested €32M in... #ConcordeCapital #DFC #DTEK #EnergyInvestments #EnergyStorage #energyukraine #IhorMazepa
Epicentr K is developing its agribusiness by constructing a port terminal. The Epicentr K group is preparing to invest in the development of its port infrastructure, the company’s top manager, Petro Mykhailyshyn, said. “We already have 170,000 hectares of land an... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #Epicentr #EpicentrKAgro #PetroMykhailyshyn #PortTerminal
A Ukrainian manufacturer of non-ferrous metal products launches a €19M cable production plant in Poland. One of the largest producers of non-ferrous metal products in Ukraine, Electro Cable Group, launched a cable production plant in the Polish city of Zabrze in June. The key argument in Poland’s f... #ElectroCableGroup #investments #MetallurgyUkraine #NonFerrous #Poland #ukrainianbusiness
A famous Ukrainian chef has invested €500,000 to launch two retail businesses and expects to attract another €1.5M. Chef and restaurateur Yevhen Klopotenko invested €500,000 in creating the 100Years brand and the 100shop online store. By the end of 2025, Klopotenko hopes to bring both businesses to self-sufficiency... #100shop #100Years #FoodProducts #investments #retailUkraine #YevhenKlopotenko
A Chinese investor is buying the largest private amber deposit in Ukraine. The Sun-Craft Center company, which mined the most amber among private subsoil users in Ukraine last year, is being bought by Chinese citizen Ren Yongpeng. His company, Lumos Plus, has become the sole... #AmberMining #ConcordeCapital #IhorMazepa #LumosPlus #MiningIndustry #SunCraftCenter
American fund Green Flag Ventures is ready to finance up to six Ukrainian startups in the first half of 2025. The American founders of Green Flag Ventures, Justin Zeefe, and Deborah Fairlamb, invest in Ukrainian defense startups with checks ranging from $100,000 to approximately $1.2M. By the end of 2024, the... #AstraNav #DeborahFairlamb #DefenseTechnology #GreenFlagVentures #Himera #investments #JustinZeefe #KaraDag #Swarmer
An international industrial group has invested more than €11M in launching a plant to produce building materials in Prykarpattia. The Saint-Gobain international group’s first plant in Ukraine opened in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The enterprise will provide employment for about 50 people and produce gypsum mixtures under t... #BuildingMaterials #investments #IvanoFrankivsk #SaintGobain
Where is one of the largest farm companies owned by the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company investing? Continental Farmers Group, which cultivates 195,000 hectares in the western regions and is the sixth largest agricultural producer in Ukraine, implemented several strategic investment projects this ye... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #ContinentalFarmersGroup #GrainElevator #Salic #SaudiArabia
The co-owner of a Ukrainian supermarket chain enters the real estate development business. BGV Group Management, an investment company and co-owner of one of the largest retail chains in Ukraine, ATB, has partnered with SAGA Development, a Ukrainian developer with a two million square meter... #ATBmarket #BGV #RealEstateUkraine #SAGAdevelopment #UkraineDevelopers
The parliament names the most profitable building materials production projects for investment. Head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on urban planning, Olena Shulyak, said that before the war the construction industry traditionally accounted for 4% of Ukraine’s GDP. At the same time, durin... #BuildingMaterials #Construction #investments #OlenaShulyak #UkraineReconstruction
Ukraine’s investment climate shows signs of improvement. Ukraine’s investment attractiveness index increased to 2.49 points in 2024 (out of a possible five) from 2.44 points in 2023, according to a survey by the EBA, in which 80 top managers of intern... #EBA #InvestmentClimate #investments #UkraineBusinessClimate #ukrainianbusiness
A Saudi fund with assets in Ukraine wants to purchase a Russian grain terminal. Salic, the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co. owned by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, is buying a company that owns several agricultural assets in Russia. One of these assets... #GrainTerminal #MHP #OlamGroup #Salic #SaudiArabia #SeaOfAzov
A Polish container rail transport operator is expanding its business in Ukraine and searching for a location to construct a terminal. Polish logistics company Laude Smart Intermodal from Toruń, which controls 33% of the container rail transport market in Ukraine, is preparing a large-scale expansion of its activities. Despite the wa... #ContainerTerminal #Laude #PolishBusiness #RailTransportation
UWEA: Investors are preparing to create a green energy development fund in Ukraine. Preparatory work is underway in Ukraine to create a fund that international financial organizations will finance to stimulate the construction of renewable energy facilities, said Andriy Konechenkov, ... #energyukraine #GreenENergy #RenewableEnergyUkraine #RESinvestments
The World Bank will provide almost $600M in financing for Ukrainian businesses, and USAID provides $6M to four companies to increase exports. The World Bank is starting a new $593M program to support small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine. The financing consists of $283M from the ADVANCE Ukraine trust fund (from Japan), $300M from the... #ADVANCEukraine #DeltaFood #SuziriaGroup #USAID #UtermUkraine #worldbank
Ukrainian businesses continue to expand despite the war: What new shops and restaurants opened in Ukraine last week? Retailer Varus returned to the development of its network in the Kyiv region, and on November 2 the company opened its first supermarket in the Varus Home format in Bilogorodka. The new store became t... #BusinessDevelopment #FastFoodMarket #KFC #Silpostores #ukrainianbusiness #Varus
Hotel Ukraine has a new owner, while the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy port still belongs to the state. The winner of the auction for the privatization of the Hotel Ukraine paid ₴2.5B and ₴502M in VAT, delivering more than ₴3B to Ukraine’s coffers. With that, according to the Ministry of Economy, ... #AuctionUkraine #BilhorodDnistrovskyySeaPort #HotelUkraina #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU
The NovaAgro group of agricultural companies invests $4.54M to expand in the Kharkiv region. The Kharkiv agro-industrial group of companies NovaAgro acquired 56.9% of French company AgroGeneration, which is the sole owner of AgroGeneration Ukraine (Kharkiv). NovaAgro Ukraine purchased this sh... #AgroGeneration #agroUkraine #investments #Kharkiv #KonkurInvestments #NovaAgro
Croatian Orbico acquires a controlling interest in one of the largest Ukrainian distributors of food and goods. General Director of Sav Orbico, Andrii Makhovskyi, announced that Croatian company Orbico Group bought a controlling stake (51%) in one of the largest Ukrainian distributors of everyday goods, Savserv... #Distribution #investments #MergersAcquisitions #OrbicoGroup #Savservice #ukrainianbusiness
Through a digital investment portal, KSE and the Ministry of Economy seek investors for projects worth €2.1B. Thirty-one new projects representing a total amount of €2.1B have been added to Ukraine’s investment portal, created by the Ministry of Economy and the Kyiv School of Economics with support from... #DigitalInvestmentPortal #investments #UkraineEconomy #ukrainianbusiness
A Ukrainian developer of EW-resistant military communication systems receives funds for scaling, and defense startups attract $25M in foreign investment. A Ukrainian developer of communication systems, Himera, received an investment from the Nezlamni fund. Although the amount is undisclosed, it is within the standard range of the fund’s $100,000 ... #ArtificialIntelligence #Brave1 #DefenseInvestments #DefenseTechnology #Himera #Nezlamni #Swarmer
Businesses have named key conditions for participation in Ukraine’s reconstruction projects. Olena Shulyak, the head of the Parliamentary Committee on Regional Development, said that Ukrainian businesses are willing to join the reconstruction and restoration processes in Ukraine. The most com... #OlenaShulyak #ReconstructionUkraine #UkraineRecovery #ukrainianbusiness
Ukraine is looking for investors interested in the Zaporizhzhia Titanium Institute and a Prykarpattya oil refinery. On November 7, the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) is re-exhibiting an online auction of the state-owned stake, in the amount of 100%, of the Titanium Institute in Zaporizhzhia. The starting pri... #investments #NaftokhimikPrykarpattya #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU #TitaniumInstitute #Zaporizhzhia
The integration of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex into the EU’s defense industry will bring benefit for both sides. Andrius Kubilius, a member of the European Parliament nominated for appointment as European Commissioner for Defense in the new European Commission, stated: “I will be responsible for the implem... #AndriusKubilius #DefenseIndustryEU #DefenseIndustryUkraine #WeaponsProduction
Seeds of Bravery is providing €1.25M in funding to 38 Ukrainian startups. The Seeds of Bravery funding will support innovation and growth across four key programs. It will help entrepreneurs accelerate their projects, raise necessary resources, and expand their presence in ... #GrantsForBusiness #SeedsOfBravery #StartUp #SupportBusiness #UkrainianStartUps
UMAEF launched a $50M investment program for Ukrainian businesses. Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund (UMAEF) has announced the launch of a new $50M direct investment program to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ukraine and Moldova. The progr... #investments #Moldova #SupportBusiness #ukrainianbusiness #UMAEF
Turkey expects an increase in bilateral trade volume with Ukraine after the entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement. One expert believes that with the Free Trade Agreement between Turkey and Ukraine going into effect, bilateral trade volume will increase from $6.1B in 2023 to $10B quickly, and logistical movements w... #ASSET_GLI #FreeTrade #investments #Turkey #UkraineTrade
Ukraine will settle nonperforming loans, which will help to attract private investment. The National Bank of Ukraine and the IFC signed an agreement to create an infrastructure for resolving nonperforming loans (NPL) in the Ukrainian banking system. The agreement envisages the creation o... #ifc #nbu #NonPerformingLoans #NPL #UkraineBankingSystem
Nova Poshta records high demand for its bonds from institutional investors. Nova Poshta from the Nova Group, a leading logistics operator in Ukraine, notes a significant demand for its bonds from a wide range of institutional investors, the group’s financial director Pe... #financeUkraine #investments #NovaGroup #NovaPoshtaBonds #PetroFokov #ukrainebonds
Ukraine must stop the accumulation of debts in green energy payments because it harms investment. The situation with debt in the renewable energy market is still critical, so the state should find ways to solve this problem and prevent it from becoming an obstacle to attracting investment in the g... #energyukraine #GreenEnergyUkraine #GuaranteedBuyer #RenewableEnergy #RESinvestments #Ukrenergo
Over the last two years, small-scale privatization has replenished the Ukrainian budget by almost ₴10B. In the two years since the restoration of small-scale privatization, the State Property Fund has held 839 successful online auctions, which have provided ₴6.65B in direct revenue to Ukraine. As specif... #kyiv #Odesa #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU #UkraineBudget #Львів
Most Ukrainian businesses invest in building their energy independence. According to EBA research, this summer’s power outages affected the operations of 87% of companies in Ukraine. Among the companies surveyed, 67% had to suspend work, 60% had increased production... #EBA #ElectricityGeneration #EnergyIndependence #energyukraine #ukrainianbusiness
An Azerbaijani investor reveals plans for Ukraine’s largest and newly purchased titanium mining company. The Azerbaijani holding Neqsol, which privatized Ukraine’s largest titanium enterprise, United Mining and Chemical Company, for ₴3.9B, plans to look for new deposits, as the reserves operated by... #DemurinskyMiningPlant #investments #MiningIndustry #NEQSOL #Nikopol #TitaniumMining #UMCC
Ukraine’s agricultural sector is not an obstacle but an investment in the EU’s competitiveness. The EU’s future expansion will not weaken, but rather will increase the bloc’s competitive advantages. During European integration, each candidate country must fulfill necessary criteria, ... #agroUkraine #EUexpansion #EuropeanIntegration #OliverRöpke
OKKO starts construction of an all-season ski resort worth $1.5B. The largest gas station network in Ukraine, OKKO Group, is building an all-season mountain resort, the GORO Mountain Resort in the Lviv region. Construction was planned to begin in the spring of 2022,... #GOROMountainResort #investments #okko #SkiResorts #Львів
The Russian-Ukrainian war forces defense companies to actively invest in laser weapons to counter UAVs. Leading defense companies such as RTX in the US, MBDA in the EU, and QinetiQ in the UK have begun to invest heavily in developing low-cost, high-energy laser weapons to combat UAVs. During the war in ... #DefenseTechnology #DragonFire #LaserWeapons #MBDA #QinetiQ #RTX
