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Coca-Cola buys Ukrainian kvass brand

February 27, 2009

Coca-Cola has bought the Zaporizhzhya factory of non-alcoholic beverages, the owner of Yarylo TM...

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French Lafarge to build second cement factory in Ukraine

February 25, 2009

Lafarge, a French construction material producer, is planning to invest about 260 million euros in the construction of the second cement factory in Ukraine...

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Average salary in Ukraine goes down

February 25, 2009

The average monthly salary in Ukraine went down to 1,665 hryvnyas in January 2009, the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine has said...

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Swedes follow Swiss in waste recycling in Ukraine

February 24, 2009

Donetsk mayor Oleksandr Lukyanchenko has said that the Swedish company Biogazprom AB plans to build a waste recycling plant in Donetsk...

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Ukrainian cabinet to revive construction market

February 24, 2009

The Ukrainian government has allocated 1 billion hryvnyas in mortgage loans to complete stalled construction projects...

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Fozzy Group posts turnover of 10.2bn hryvnyas in 2008

February 23, 2009

Fozzy Group, one of the biggest Ukrainian retailers, has said that the cumulative turnover of its chains of Silpo supermarkets, Fora discounters and Fozzy C&C hypermarkets reached 10.2 billion hryvnyas in 2008...

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Ukraine to save on gas thanks to windmills

February 19, 2009

The Cabinet of Ministers has commissioned investment projects on the construction of windmills in southern Ukraine...

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Unemployment expected to go up in Ukraine

February 17, 2009

Unemployment in Ukraine will reach 9% in 2009, the state employment center has said...

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Billa goes to Ukrainian capital centre

February 17, 2009

The Austrian supermarket chain Billa has won the right to rent the most central location in Ukraine’s capital...

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EBRD to invest over 900m euros in Ukraine in 2009

February 16, 2009

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to invest around 500 million euros in Ukraine’s banking sector...

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Israel coffee chain comes to Ukraine

February 16, 2009

Aroma Espresso bar, an Israel coffee shop chain, is planning to invest in Ukraine despite the crisis...

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Nova Linia looking for investor

February 13, 2009

Nova Linia, one of Ukraine’s biggest construction supermarket chains, is looking for an investor. The company plans to sell from 5% to 25% of its shares, depending on the company’s pending assessment...

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Ukrainian telecom officially on sale

February 11, 2009

The State Property Fund of Ukraine has officially announced the sale of 67.79% of the open joint-stock company Ukrtelecom...

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State stake in AeroSvit put for sale

February 11, 2009

The State Property Fund of Ukraine has announced the sale of a 22.3941% state stake in AeroSvit Airlines...

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Swiss waste recycling plant enters Ukraine

February 9, 2009

The Swiss Albicia AG is planning to invest 27-30 million euros into a garbage incineration plant in Odesa...

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British company buys stake in Ukrainian car factory

February 9, 2009

NLV Private Equity & Investments Ltd., a British investment company, has bought 3.85% of the automobile factory Bogdan for 13 million dollars...

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Ukrtelecom planned for sale in March

February 9, 2009

The Ukrainian government is planning to sell Ukrtelecom in March 2009, Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinsky has said...

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Russia wants Ukraine to compensate for gas losses

February 5, 2009

According to the official web-site of the Kremlin, Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev has said that Ukraine should compensate for financial losses from the gas crisis...

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Ukrainian Hotels cooperates with Wyndham Hotel Group

February 5, 2009

Ukrainian Hotels, a part of Astron-Ukraina Corporation, has been granted an exclusive right by Wyndham Hotel Group to open Ramada brand hotels in Ukraine...

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German Schmidt Investors eyeing Ukraine

February 3, 2009

Looking to skim the cream off today’s real estate market, Germany’s Schmidt Investors plans to invest more than...

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French malt producer buys Dnipropetrovsk brewery

February 3, 2009

Soufflet Group (France), one of the world’s biggest malt producers, has bought the Dnipropetrovsk-based malt distillery Dnepr from Ukraine’s System Capital Management (SCM)...

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Ukraine’s Zarina merging with Swiss Jeweller Gallery

February 3, 2009

The Ukrainian jewelry house Zarina has announced the merge with Swiss Jeweller Gallery (SJG)...

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Ukrainian radio factory Orion up for sale

February 2, 2009

The State Property Fund of Ukraine has put a 97% stake of the Ternopil-based radio factory Orion up for sale...

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Svit Lasoschiv confectionary looking for investor

February 2, 2009

Petrus Group is looking for a strategic investor for its confectionary business Svit Lasoschiv...

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Steel production in Ukraine 6% up in January

February 2, 2009

Steel production in Ukraine increased by 6% in January over December, up to 2.123 million tonnes...

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Crisis pushes Ukrainian car producers to look for new markets

February 2, 2009

Producers forecast that car sales in Ukraine will shrink by half in 2009. Because of the rationed loans and devaluation of the hryvnya, not more than 300 000 cars are expected to be sold this year...

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Ukravtodor allowed to seek 465-million-dollar loan from Credit Suisse

February 2, 2009

The Credit Suisse International will issue the Ukrainian State Motorway Service (Ukravtodor) with 465 million dollars worth of a six-month loan at Libor +8% under government guarantees...

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