Investments

Friday, October 29

Borshchiv distillery to be privatized and sold for a starting price of ₴21 mln ($795,000) . The State Property Fund (SPFU) will put the Lipnytsia distillery in the Zhytomyr region up for an online auction to take place on November 19, 2021. The asset is being sold along with real estate in...

Ukrainian investors will be able to buy stocks in Google, Amazon, Intel, and other US blue-chip companies. The National Securities and Stock Market Commission has admitted to trading 15 more international companies, including Bank of America, Google, Amazon, and others. In total, Ukrainian investors can cu...

Thursday, October 28

The Bolshevik plant was sold at auction for ₴1.4 bln ($53 mln). The State Property Fund (SPFU) sold the Kyiv plant “Bolshevik” to the company “General Commerce” at an auction of “large-scale privatization” for ₴1.429 bln. The st...

Other enterprises to be auctioned in the large-scale privatization in the remainder of 2021 include: the United Mining and Chemical Company (OGHC), the President Hotel in Kyiv, Electronmash, and the port of Ust-Dunaisk. The Head of the SPF, Dmitry Sennichenko, announced that on November 12 Electronma...

Wednesday, October 27

The Ministry of Finance has sold government bonds valued at ₴17.2 bln ($653 mln). Investors were offered six bond issues in national currency and one issue in foreign currency reported the Ministry of Finance on the Facebook page. The terms of government bonds in hryvnia were: 3 mo...

The Investment Promotion and Support Office (UkraineInvest) received 27 applications for state support , reported Interfax. The requests came from potential investors and were approximately $2 bln under the adopted law on investments, said UkraineInvest Executive Director Serhiy Tsivkach. “As of ...

Tuesday, October 26

Oschadbank made the first step toward Privatization, said the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in a recent press release. The EBRD and Oschadbank, Ukraine’s state savings bank, today agreed today to work together towards a pre-pri...

Ukrposhta and eBay have launched a campaign in support of Ukrainian SMEs. Entrepreneurs registered on the platform by the end of the year will be offered special conditions such as 0% commission on sales for the first three months, 200 free advertisements, and special suppo...

Trostyanets distillery to be privatized. The state-owned enterprise in the Vinnytsia region has been put up for privatization with a starting price of ₴ 44 million UAH 44 mln ($1.67 mln). The distillery lists its assets as 67 plots of land a...

Monday, October 25

Privatization of salt-mining enterprise in the Kherson region. During the online auction, the bidding’s value increased 7.3 times from the starting price of UAH 6.13 mln ($233,000). The auction had 9 registered participants and the as...

Friday, October 22

Ukrzaliznytsia tender for the purchase of 80 new trains. The national rail operator has extended the tender period by a month, until December 1st, for the submission of bids for the purchase of 80 new suburban and regional trains. It is noted that the compa...

Thursday, October 21

The Ministry of Finance sold UAH 2.1 bln ($80 mln) on the domestic bond market , reported the Ministry of Finance. On October 19, the agency offered investors two issues of securities in national currency and one in foreign currency. The government bonds in hryvnia had maturity ...

Tuesday, October 19

NEQSOL Holding to become a shareholder in the leading Ukrainian cement producer, Ivano-Frankivskcement PJSC. The cross-border investor, NEQSOL Holding, has announced its interest in expanding its investment portfolio in Ukraine by entering the construction materials market. The company is in the final stage ...

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) plans to create a technopark with an investment of UAH 50 mln ($1.88 mln) . NaUKMA together with the Bureau of Investment Programs (BIP) plans to create a technopark with the participation of an investor. After the completion of construction, the area will be able to accomm...

Monday, October 18

Lidl comes to Ukraine. The Schwarz Group is planning to enter the Ukrainian market and become a direct competitor to the local discounter ATB. ATB one of the largest private companies in Ukraine already has a branch network...

Ukrainian startup Party.Space has attracted $ 1 million in investment, reported ain.ua. Party.Space is a virtual platform for corporate parties, themed holidays, seminars, and afterparty with the simulation of live presence in 3D and game activities. Party.space allows y...

Friday, October 15

Naftogaz attracts investors to the development of the Ukrainian gas market. On October 20-21, the Ukrainian Gas Investment Congress will take place in Kyiv at the initiative of Naftogaz Ukraine and with the support of the Ministry of Energy.

Shmyhal invites Swedish companies to invest in Ukraine. “Diversification of sources of nuclear fuel supply is one of our priorities in the context of energy security for our country. In addition, Ukraine has fulfilled all the technical conditions to ensure...

Good Wine to build EUR 100-mln food town project in Kyiv. Good Wine (Wine Bureau LLC) purchased a land plot in Kyiv to build an urban area with parks and a retail outlet with specialized shops, cafes, and restaurants under one roof,” said the owner of ...

Nova Poshta invests UAH 1 bln ($38 mln) in the construction of a sorting terminal near Boryspil airport. Speaking with Interfax-Ukraine, Oleksandr Bulba, the company’s CEO, said that “The new terminal will include the most advanced technologies of world postal logistics and will be able to sort up ...

Thursday, October 14

H&M will open its first store in Lviv on October 28, 2021, the retailer’s press service has reported. The H&M store will be located at Victoria Gardens shopping mall with a total area of 1,900 square meters. Lviv will become the fourth city in Ukrai...

Construction of an industrial park has commenced in Lviv. Sparrow Capital Investment has laid the foundation of the park. “The project, which aims to build 100,000 square meters will be a boost to the local economy, employment in the region, the investors in...

Tuesday, October 12

€6.5 bln EU investment program for Ukraine. At the EU-Ukraine summit, there will also be announcements of EU support which should attract several billion in investments to Ukraine. “An investment package of 6.5 billion euros will be launc...

Kovalevsky distillery was privatized for UAH 23.2 mln ($880,000). Three participants registered to participate in the auction. The price of the distillery during the auction increased two-fold against the starting price. “The new owner will receive 33 properties wit...

Friday, October 8

The auction for the sale of frequencies for 5G communication will be held in Ukraine in 2022, said the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. “Next year we plan to put up frequencies [for 5G communication] at tenders for the operators,” said Fedor...

Five projects for the construction of highways attract the interest of investors. Ukraine is actively looking for ways of effective cooperation between business and the state. Speaking at the Kyiv International Economic Forum, the Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, said, “Next year, I ...

Boeing maintenance hangars to be built at Kharkiv airport. At the International Conference in Kharkiv: “Development and Investment”, Kharkiv City Council and Avia Solutions Group signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. The parties agreed to build hangars fo...

The first land auction in the Prozorro.Sales system has been announced. The first auction for the lease of communal agricultural land has been announced in the state electronic trading system Prozorro.Sales on November 9, 2021. A 2.1-hectare plot of land was put up for au...

Ukrainians purchased UAH 2 bln ($75.5) in Government bonds from PrivatBank. Since the beginning of 2021, Ukrainians have purchased more than UAH 2 bln worth of domestic government bonds through Privatbank, of which 65% (almost UAH 1.3 billion) are online through Privat24. At ...

Thursday, October 7

The investment firm, Dragon Capital, has entered the banking sector. They will develop Unex-Bank as a separate business, as an independent universal bank, which will service both retail clients, and those in the corporate sector, namely SMEs, said the founder of Dragon...

Ukrzaliznytsia sells non-core assets. UZ will sell real estate on October 19 and November 4 on Prozorro.Sales platform. The company plans to sell 9 lots of real estate and another 7 assets which were not sold in the last auction. These as...

The US firm, Virtuozzo, has purchased the Ukrainian developer of cloud services Jelastic. Virtuozzo is a company that specializes in virtualization software has bought the Ukrainian IT developer of cloud services Jelastic. The transaction was announced by the CEO of Jelastic, Ruslan Sinits...

Wednesday, October 6

The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank has approved 53 investment projects in Ukraine valued at €842.7 mln. Full funding has already been allocated for 48 projects valued at €776.2 mln in Ukraine. “This confirms the status of Ukraine as an active participant in international economic relations”, said the De...

The Ministry of Finance has sold bonds to the value of UAH 2.465 bln ($93 mln) . At the Bond auctions, the Ministry of Finance offered investors six issues of securities in the national currency. The weighted average yield of 6-month was 9.70%, 1-year – 11.50%, 1.5-year &#...

Vinnytsa Airport to borrow UAH 300 mln ($11.32 mln) from Ukreximbank. The Vinnytsia City Council has signed a loan agreement to finance the reconstruction of Vinnytsia Airport. The loan will be used for construction in the amount of UAH 300 mln ($11.32...

FM Logistic Ukraine will invest $ 25-30 mln in the construction of 20,000 square meters, the fifth phase of their logistics complex in the Kyiv region. “The construction of these buildings, plus their equipment, will require $ 25-30 mln in inve...

IT is the road to Ukraine’s brighter future. This is the theme of the EBA IT Conference which will be held on October 11, 2021. It will provide participants the opportunity to hear presentations by industry leaders in the IT sector, CEOs of lead...

Ukraine presented the country’s investment potential at a forum in Paris, France. The Ukrainian delegation has presented investment opportunities within the framework of Paris InfraWeek, the annual international investment forum dedicated to infrastructure, according to the Ukraini...

Tuesday, October 5

Efficient industrial parks in Ukraine can create more than a thousand jobs , said Oleksii Chernyshov, the Minister for Communities and Territories Development. He said that “An efficient regional network of industrial parks can create thousands of new jobs in the regions. Th...

Air taxi from Kharkiv. Kharkiv FED has signed agreements with European industrial firms to implement an air taxi project. The announcement was reported in the Kharkiv Region administration press service. Working with the pa...

The State Property Fund held more than 1,500 auctions since the beginning of 2021. The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) earned more than UAH 2.2 billion ($83 mln) from the auctions “Privatization is, first of all, the transformation of unprodu...

Foreign direct investment in Ukraine in the first half of 2021 reaches record levels for the first time in four years. “In the first half of 2021, foreign direct investment in Ukraine amounted to $ 2.83 billion, of which $ 2.33 billion came from the European Union. Investment growth in the first half of the year...

Crypto ownership in Ukraine is a higher investment in this currency than in the US. As of 2021, Ukraine tops the ranking, beating the US. It is estimated that over 5.5 million people, 12.7% of Ukraine’s total population, currently own cryptocurrency (ukrinform). According to Triple-A...

Eco Baltia looking at opportunities to build waste processing infrastructure in the Cherkasy region. The Latvian waste processor, Eco Baltia Vide, is undertaking preliminary work to develop waste processing infrastructure in the Cherkasy region. Working with EBRD programs, the company is looking at a...

Monday, October 4

September Business Outlook Survey (BOS) shows that businesses remain upbeat about their performance outlook. In the first month of fall, businesses remained upbeat about their performance outlook on the back of robust consumer demand, a favorable...

The Ukrainian pavilion at the World Expo 2020 Dubai is open for visitors. For the first time, Ukraine is presenting its national pavilion at the Expo to the world. According to the Deputy Minister of Economy, Mykhailo Lev, “The goal is to demonstrate that Ukraine is about i...

New Solar power plants for Vinnytsia City. Vinnytsia City Council a program for the construction of solar power plants for their own consumption by healthcare institutions, and utilities of Vinnytsia city territorial community for 2022-2026. T...

Technology companies have the best opportunity to attract strategic investors. “Quantitative changes in technology, the introduction of state-of-the-art solutions based on “smart systems”, associated with the widespread introduction of so-called smart, cyber-physical...

Friday, October 1

Ukrainian stock market has its first IPO The first for many years with the placement of 500,000 common shares of the Football Club Veres at the PFTS stock exchange in Kyiv. The announcement was made by Taras Teryuchnyi on Linkedin. The share...

Thursday, September 30

Producers of Renewable Energy have received UAH 80 billion ($3 bln) in “green” tariffs. The payments made by the state enterprise “Guaranteed Buyer” to Renewable Energy producers have exceeded UAH 80 billion ($3 bln). At the same time, the share of “clean” generat...