A German company is investing €1.5M to launch a new production line for construction materials in the Kyiv region. The MC-Bauchemie company plans to expand its production of dry building mixes in Berezan (Kyiv Region), said the director of MC-Bauchemie Ukraine, Artem Pryymachenko. “We intend to build a new l... #BuildingMaterials #ConstructionMaterialsUkraine #InvestmentsinUkraine #MCBauchemie
ArcelorMittal Construction is investing €40M in the production of construction materials to rebuild Ukraine. ArcelorMittal Construction, the world leader in construction solutions, will build a modern production facility in Ukraine to support restoration works with an investment of €40M. Through its subsidia... #ArcelorMittal #BuildingMaterials #ConstructionMaterialsUkraine #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineInvest #UkraineReconstruction
The Vice Chancellor of Germany arrived in Kyiv and discussed investments, reconstruction, and defense projects. On April 18, Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko met with Vice-Chancellor of Germany Robert Habeck, who arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit. Svyrydenko presented Ukraine’s urgent need for energy ... #ElectricityGeneration #GermanBusiness #InvestmentsinUkraine #MiningUkraine #RobertHabeck #YuliyaSvyridenko
Ferrexpo is investing in the construction of a 10.8 MW solar power plant and electrifying its production processes. The metallurgical company Ferrexpo plans to build a solar power plant with a capacity of 10.8 MW for its production needs, said Viktor Lotous, chairman of the board of Poltava MPP. He states that the ... #ferrexpo #RenewableEnergyUkraine #SolarEnergyUkraine #Ukrainianmetallurgy #YeristovoMining
The Nova group is launching its own energy company to generate electricity, including renewable energy. In connection with the strikes by the Russian Federation on the energy system, the Nova group of companies has decided to create the Nova Energy company, which will develop electricity generation, inc... #BusinessDevelopment #ElectricityGeneration #NovaGroup #novaposhta #RenewableEnergyUkraine #VolodymyrPopereshnyuk
Ukrainian and South Korean companies will build a modern chemical industrial park. Group DF International and Hyundai Engineering Co. Limited will build a chemical industrial park in the city of Rivne. The large-scale project envisages the construction of factories to produce “... #ChemicalIndustryUkraine #GroupDF #HyundaiEngineering #IndustrialParkUkraine #InvestmentsinUkraine #RobertShetlerJones #SouthKoreaAid
Venture capital investors have recognized Ukrainian Haiqu as one of the most promising quantum startups. After interviewing investors, Sifted published a rating of the 11 most promising quantum computing startups, including the Ukrainian startup, Haiqu. In 2023, European quantum start-ups received $781M ... #Haiqu #investments #MykolaMaksymenko #QuantumComputing #RichardGivan #UkrainianStartUP
The export credit agency receives wider opportunities for investment insurance. The government approved the list of military and political risks and the terms and conditions of risk insurance for the Export Credit Agency (ECA). The approved resolution will improve the legal regul... #ECA #InsuranceUkraine #investments #MilitaryRiskInsurance #PoliticalRisk
Ukraine is looking for investors to restore oil wells. According to Ukrnafta, the company’s strategy is the restoration of exhausted wells with the help of modern technologies. There are currently 4,222 such wells, 2,100 are within the limits of Ukrnafta&... #InvestmentsinUkraine #Oilmining #OilProductionUkraine #OilWell #Ukrnafta
Germany will mobilize the private sector to rebuild Ukraine, and Italy will form a list of interested companies. On April 10, the German government will consider a comprehensive document on the mobilization of private sector resources for Ukraine’s restoration, the Ministry of Economic Development of Germany rep... #Germany #InvestmentsinUkraine #ItalyAidforUkraine #SupportUkraine #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
A transshipment terminal with a capacity of three million tons was built in Romania near the Ukrainian border. Romania’s largest private rail freight operator, the Grampet Group, has built a rail transshipment terminal in Dornești near the Romanian-Ukrainian border. The terminal should become a strategic... #agroexportukraine #Dornești #GrampetGroup #RailTerminal #TransshipmentTerminal
McDonald’s invests ₴1B in network expansion in Ukraine and strengthens cooperation with domestic businesses. Yuliya Badritdinova, the company’s general manager for the markets of Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, said that the plan for 2024 is similar to 2023, so the amount of investment will ... #InvestmentsinUkraine #McDonalds #MHP #okko #UkraineRestaurants #WOG #YuliyaBadritdinova
Canadian Black Iron will submit a new application for the Shymaniv iron ore deposit after the updated Investment Support Agreement. The company noted that the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine has updated legislation on investment support agreements and is now accepting applications through UkraineInvest. Black Iron took advantage of... #BlackIron #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #ShymanivIronOreDeposit #UkraineInvest
International investor Aregy Group has withdrawn from all projects in Ukraine due to corporate takeover attempts. The international medical group Aregy Group announced its exit from all projects in Ukraine due to regular raider attacks on one of its assets – the Chervona Kalyna recreation center in the vill... #AregyGroup #ChervonaKalyna #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #RaiderAttacks
Ukraine launches an accelerator for military startups. The Defence Builder Accelerator program was launched for startups that are interested in creating innovative solutions with military applications and who are also ready to develop projects at the mili... #DefenceBuilderAccelerator #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseStartups #DefenseTechnology #investments
American investors are interested in Ukraine’s defense, but there are conditions. Ukraine has a good chance of attracting investment from the US and other developed countries. These processes have already begun and are actively continuing, said Vladyslav Belbas, general director of... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseInvestments #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineMilitaryIndustry #UkrainianArmoredVehicles #VladyslavBelbas
Ukrainian agricultural holdings are investing in their logistics. With its own fleet, Kernel will transport products to consumer countries and reduce export logistics costs. Kernel achieved this capacity by acquiring a third vessel – the bulker Rotterdam Pearl... #GrainLogistics #Kernel #KTLUkraine #MHPAgroholding #Ukrainianlogistics
The government found a way to attract investment to the seaports. The government wants to attract private investors to modernize ports, but in exchange for investment, the government offers a compensation mechanism through port fees. At the same time, the amount of ... #InvestmentsinUkraine #ModernizationUkraine #SeaPortsModernization #UkraineSeaPorts
A global online carpooling platform with a significant market share in Ukraine has attracted €100M. “The company will use the €100M investment to implement an ambitious growth strategy, including several M&A deals. The additional funding will allow the company to develop new projects, enco... #BlaBlaCar #BusinessInvestments #MergersAcquisitions #NicolasBrusson
Ukraine’s partners are planning its reconstruction: A Turkish task force will pay a visit, and Korea is providing $2.1B in soft loans. In the coming weeks, a Turkish group led by the Minister of Trade of Turkey, Omer Bolat, plans to visit Ukraine and determine priority projects that can be undertaken by companies that are not yet pre... #OmerBolat #PreferentialLoans #SupportUkraine #UkraineReconstruction #VasylBodnar
During the first quarter, 18 Ukrainian startups attracted at least $42M in venture investment. As noted, the quarterly figure may be higher, because not all deals were public. So, due to its non-public nature, the potentially largest investment on the list did not make it on the list. In Januar... #Carmoola #Himera #investments #OneNotary #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP #Viseven
The reconstruction of Kharkiv will cost $10B, and the city needs the help of international partners. According to Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov, rebuilding everything Russia has destroyed since the start of the war will require over $10B. The occupiers have almost completely destroyed the city’s commun... #IgorTerekhov #Kharkiv #KharkivReconstruction #UkraineWarDamages #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s accession to the EU will trigger an influx of foreign investment and changes in the financial sector. The country’s accession to the EU entails a sharp increase in private foreign direct investment, said Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital. “If you look at private investments in Poland, dur... #AndriiPyshnyi #DragonCapital #EuropeanIntegration #InvestmentsinUkraine #TomasFiala
Transcarpathia plans to build a river port with access to the Danube and a multimodal terminal. The Transcarpathian regional state administration is studying the issue of allocating a plot of land to construct a river port and a multimodal terminal on the bank of the Tisza (one of the largest tr... #DanubePorts #multimodalterminal #RiverPortsModernization #TiszaRiverPort
How is Denmark helping to rebuild Ukraine? Recently, Denmark has become a leading provider of commercial support to Ukraine. The Danish government has done this through a fund that provides various commercial financing tools and reduces risk f... #DenmarkSupportUkraine #EIFO #IFU #InsuranceUkraine #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineRecovery
Several world-famous companies are interested in privatizing two hotels in the center of Kyiv. According to Vitaliy Koval, head of the State Property Fund, state-owned hotels in the center of the capital can become flagships for privatization in 2024. “We see a lively market interest in the Koz... #HotelKozatskyi #HotelUkraina #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU #VitaliyKoval
A Ukrainian company plans to raise $8M to construct a processing plant for demolition waste. Agroholding KSG Agro has developed a project to construct a new plant for sorting, processing, and disposing of the consequences of destruction in the Kherson region. The planned implementation period... #ConstructionMaterialsUkraine #KSGAgro #UkraineWarDamages #WasteProcessingPlant
Lithuanian companies are modernizing Ukraine’s logistics infrastructure and will open a single logistics center this year. Representatives from Lithuanian railway operators – the transport and cargo companies LTG Cargo and BGS Rail Holdings – are expanding their presence in Ukraine. The companies are involved ... #LithuanianRailways #Novus #UkraineRailwaysModernization #Ukrainianlogistics #UkrainianRailways #ValdemarasSarapinas
Metinvest plans to invest in Ukraine’s reconstruction, but there are obstacles. The general director of the Metinvest group, Yuriy Ryzhenkov, says the expansion of logistics capabilities, currency liberalization, and transparent rules for booking employees are important condition... #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #Metinvest #UkraineRecovery #YuriyRyzhenkov
An international company invests €20M in a factory to produce consumer goods. As reported by the Kyiv administration, the international company Unilever has started constructing a new factory in the Bila Tserkva industrial park in the Kyiv region. The factory will produce perso... #IndustrialPark #InvestmentsinUkraine #RuslanKravchenko #Unilever
The indissoluble link between business and war: UBN held a second event in Kyiv On a still cool but already spring day, amid a tangle of bad news and public concerns about the future hanging in the air of Kyiv’s streets, a circle of selected business investors, entrepreneur... #AndrewPryma #DentonsLaw #GennadiyChizhykov #IoannisKyriakopoulos #OleksiyReznikov #OlhaStrefanishyna #PavloNarozhyi #PiraeusBank #SergiiRud #UBNnetwork #UkraineBusinessNetwork #ukrainebusinessnews #VolodymyrMonastyrsky #WinnerGroup
During the war, 43 global companies have invested $1.7B in Ukraine. International investments in Ukraine increased from $0.5B in 2022 to $1.2B in 2023, said the head of the KSE Institute, Nataliya Shapoval, during the Ukraine Business Compact (UBC) Workshop. According... #Bayer #Baykar #CarlsbergGroup #CEMARK #CRH #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineBusinessCompact
A Ukrainian animal feed producer increased sales abroad and invested €6.55M to expand production in Ukraine and Lithuania. Kormotech, a pet food company, ended last year with a turnover of $152M, exceeding sales plans by $2M. Sales volume reached 77,400 tons, up 15.7% from 2022. The company’s sales grew most dynamic... #FeedProduction #investments #Kormotech
The EBRD plans to invest up to €10B in Ukraine over the next five years, said EBRD Vice President Jürgen Rigterink. He noted that the EBRD, responding to the crisis caused by the war, is focused on five main areas of Ukrainian support, spread between the private sector and... #ebrd #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #JürgenRigterink #SupportBusiness #SupportUkraine
The EIB has increased investment in Ukraine by 700% and plans to allocate €100M for the restoration of hydropower. In 2023, the European Investment Bank increased project financing in Ukraine by 700% compared to the previous year, up to €262M. The main direction for this financing was €133M to restore damaged crit... #DenysShmyhal #EIB #EnergyInvestments #InvestmentsinUkraine #Ukrainianhydropower #Ukrhydroenergo
The largest shopping center will be built in the Kyiv region. A new shopping and entertainment center, the Bucha Gallery, will be built in Bucha, Kyiv. It will be built on the site of the Epicentr hypermarket destroyed by the invaders, said the mayor of Bucha, A... #BuchaGallery #Construction #EpicentrK #ShoppingMallsUkraine #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
About 75% of the Ukraine Business Compact platform’s participants have already invested in Ukraine or may soon do so. The Ministry of Economy, together with hundreds of companies from Ukraine and around the world, have started work to implement investment projects in promising sectors of the Ukrainian economy and dis... #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineBusinessCompact #UkraineEconomy #VolodymyrKuzyo
Experts have named the most attractive industries for investment in Ukraine and identified the barriers that should be removed. As Andrii Dlygach, the Director of the Advanter Group of Companies, pointed out, given its present course of European integration, Ukraine has huge opportunities in everything related to the green tra... #energyukraine #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineDevelopment #UkraineEconomy #Ukrainianmetallurgy
The state property fund will again try to sell the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky seaport. What else is listed for privatization this week? During the current week, the State Property Fund (SPFU) plans to sell the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky Sea trade port, the Rivne radio engineering plant, the Kamensk distillery, and the Kholminsky distillery.... #BilhorodDnistrovskyySeaPort #DistilleryPrivatization #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU
Germany and Norway are offering several grant programs to Ukrainian businesses. The German government offers a financing tool aimed at existing companies with an annual turnover of at least €800,000 that want to invest in Ukraine or expand their activities at the local level. Eli... #GrantsForBusiness #InvestmentsinUkraine #NorwaySupportUkraine #SupportBusiness
Despite all the challenges, we continue to move towards the goal: Olha Stefanishyna on the progress and obstacles in European integration. Within the framework of the second event of Ukraine Business Network, where outstanding speakers from both the private and public sectors presented global macroeconomic forecasts for 2024-2025, scenar... #EuroIntegration #OlhaStefanishyna #Stefanishyna #UBNconferense #UBNliveEvent #UBNnetwork #UkraineBusinessNetwork #UkraineIntegrationInEU #новинивукраїні
Ukraine is launching a mechanism to support large investors. The government has approved the latest regulatory document that is necessary to launch the state support mechanism for projects with significant investment. Investors will receive maximum assistance a... #ForeignInvestor #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #YuliyaSvyridenko
BlackRock expects to attract $15B from investors to reconstruct Ukraine through a reconstruction bank. According to Philipp Hildebrand, VP of the BlackRock investment company, the Development Fund of Ukraine will be composed of at least $500M from countries, development banks, and other grant providers... #BlackRock #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #PhilippHildebrand #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
A significant part of Ukrainian businesses is considering investment despite the war, according to data from the Institute of Economic Research. In 2023, 45% of surveyed companies invested in their development or restoration, and 44% were ready to invest in 2024. These are some of the ... #BusinessInvestments #investments #UkraineBusinessActivity #UkraineEconomy #бізнесвУкраїні
What industries in Ukraine do investors consider promising during the war? In the conditions of Russian aggression, Ukraine is attractive for investors who work with so-called distressed assets. These investors are willing to buy risky assets very cheaply, expecting potentia... #agroUkraine #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #ProcessingPlantUkraine #UkraineEconomy
What worries foreign investors in Ukraine the most? By order of the NBU, foreign investors cannot withdraw their dividends from Ukraine, which is the biggest problem with the inflow of investment, said the head of the EBA, Anna Derevyanko. “If yo... #AnnaDerevyanko #EBA #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #nbu
A Ukrainian startup developing secure communications for the military has attracted over $500,000 in investment. Ukrainian defense start-up Himera, which creates tactical communication devices for the Armed Forces, has attracted $525,000 in investment from the United Angels Network and several private investors.... #DefenseStartups #Himera #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUps
Ukraine has excellent energy export potential. What’s standing in the way? To build new energy-generation facilities in Ukraine, it is necessary to create conditions for investment in the energy industry, noted economist Kyrylo Kryvolap. He added that Ukraine has great expor... #EnergyExport #EnergyInvestments #UkraineEnergy
The restoration of Ukraine will cost $1T, and private businesses are braced for it. According to EIB estimates, more than $1T in public and private capital may be spent restoring Ukraine. However, there is already an approximate plan of action. The Turkish Onur Group repairs blown-up... #Bayer #Fixit #OnurGroup #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
Bond Investors are Ready to Fund the War Against the Russian Federation. Bond investors are urging squabbling European Union leaders to get their act together on defense spending and make the bloc’s trillion-euro bond program permanent, reported Bloomberg. That means deman... #Bonds #investments #SupportUkraine
