According to the results of 2024, the pharmaceutical company PJSC Kyiv Vitamin Plant (KVZ) increased its net profit by 8.74% compared to 2023, to UAH 156.84 million.
According to the company’s disclosure to the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, its revenue from sales last year increased by 14.71% to UAH 4.944 billion.
As reported, at the end of 2022, Kyiv Vitamin Plant (KVZ) increased its net profit by 30.5% compared to 2022, to UAH 219.571 million.
KVZ is one of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies in Ukraine. The company’s product portfolio includes over 100 medicines and 20 dietary supplements.
According to the Opendatabot system, the ultimate beneficiary of KVZ is Canadian citizen Maxim Martin.
Schneider Electric, a global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, is launching the Environmental Data Program. Building on the legacy of Green Premium labeling, this initiative provides customers with unique access to information about the environmental impact of products, enabling them to make more informed, data-driven decisions and confidently meet new regulatory requirements.
Schneider Electric has been repeatedly recognized as a leader in sustainability, including being named the world’s most sustainable company by Time magazine and Statista in 2024, and ranking first in Corporate Knights’ ranking for the second time in January 2025. This commitment to environmental leadership and growing customer demand for transparency have been the driving forces behind the launch of the new program.
By providing key information such as carbon footprint, energy efficiency, packaging, recycled content, and more, Schneider Electric helps customers choose solutions that meet their sustainability goals and better track, understand, and reduce their own environmental impact.
Schneider Electric now publishes data for 14 environmental characteristics, up from the five previously available under the Green Premium label. This data is available online for 110,000 commercial items. The company plans to expand coverage to 155,000 items by the end of the year, covering 80% of its turnover, compared to the current 70%.
With 2024 officially the hottest year on record, the need for decisive action on the environment and climate has never been clearer. At the same time, research shows that only 7.2% of the global economy is circular. Recent years have been marked by regulatory changes (including the draft EU Directive on environmental claims) that increase transparency and accountability requirements. The data provided under the Environmental Data Program will make it easier for customers to use it for both business and compliance and reporting purposes. Transparency in environmental data is key to both decarbonization and maintaining competitiveness—two strategic goals for the future. Ultimately, it is about enabling better decisions through clearer, more accurate, and more reliable data.
Chris Long, Schneider Electric’s Chief Sustainability Officer, said: “With over 15 years of experience in product environmental data, we have built a legacy of trust and transparency. Now, with the launch of the Environmental Data Program, we are setting a new standard for the availability and effectiveness of such data. We remain committed to helping our customers and partners make responsible, informed decisions with transparency at the core: use better, use longer, use again.”
Celine Coulibray-Duménil, Director of Sustainability at Rexel, a global leader in electrical distribution, supports the Environmental Data Program: “Providing customers with more transparent and factual product information is a necessity. We support Schneider Electric’s commitment to influencing the industry by promoting greater transparency on product environmental performance.”
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We are a global industry technology leader, bringing global expertise in electrification, automation, and digitalization to smart industries, reliable infrastructure, high-performance data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Drawing on our deep industry expertise, we provide integrated, end-to-end IoT solutions with artificial intelligence-enabled connected products, automation, software, and services, creating digital twins to deliver profitable growth for our customers.
Our company’s main resource is our 150,000 employees and over one million partners working in more than 100 countries around the world to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We support diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful purpose of a sustainable future for all.
Source: https://interfax.com.ua/news/press-release/1073563.html
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevhen Perebyinis accepted copies of credentials from the newly appointed ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Tolejan Barlybayev.
According to the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the deputy minister congratulated Tolejan Barlybayev on the start of his third diplomatic term in Ukraine, this time as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and wished him every success in his important mission for the benefit of the two countries and peoples.
Perebyinis thanked Kazakhstan for its support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Noting Astana’s commitment to the fundamental principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, he stressed the importance of establishing a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
“The parties discussed ways to intensify bilateral political dialogue and deepen trade, economic, cultural, and humanitarian cooperation between the two countries,” the statement said.
On April 17, 2025, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev appointed Tolezhan Barlybayev as the new ambassador of the Republic to Ukraine.
He previously worked at the Kazakh embassies in Ukraine, Poland, and the Netherlands. He served as head of the Europe and America Department, headed the secretariat of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry, and worked at the Center for Foreign Policy in the Presidential Administration.
In addition, Barlybayev served as Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Slovakia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Previously, Darkhan Kaletaev held the position of ambassador to Ukraine for more than five years.
Ukraine increased imports of tin and tin products to $1.17 million (+32.1%) in January-April 2025. Exports decreased by $55,000 compared to $107,000 a year earlier. In April, imports amounted to $282,000, while exports amounted to $1,000.
Tin is mainly used as a safe, non-toxic, corrosion-resistant coating in its pure form or in alloys with other metals. The main industrial applications of tin are in white tin (tin-plated iron) for the manufacture of food containers, in solders for electronics, in domestic piping, in bearing alloys, and in coatings made of tin and its alloys. The most important alloy of tin is bronze (with copper).
Former Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov was shot dead near an American school in Madrid, Reuters reports, citing a source close to the investigation.
“An unknown armed man or men shot and killed former Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov on Wednesday morning at the gates of an American school in the affluent Madrid neighborhood of Posuello,” Reuters reported on its website on Wednesday.
According to the report, police received information about the shooting at 9:15 a.m. (7:15 a.m. GMT) local time. At the same time, Madrid police did not name the victim.
Reuters also writes that radio station Cadena SER reported that the man was taking his children to school when he was shot.
Politician and lawyer Andriy Portnov (born 1973) was a member of the Ukrainian parliament in the 5th and 6th convocations (2006-2007, 2007-2010). From April 2010 to February 2014, he was head of the Main Department for Judicial Reform of the Presidential Administration of Viktor Yanukovych and deputy (from January 24, 2014, first deputy) head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.
Since December 2021, Portnov has been under US sanctions for influencing the courts. According to journalists from the Schemes program, Portnov left Ukraine in June 2022.
In January-March 2025, ARX Insurance Company (ARX, Kyiv) collected gross insurance premiums in the amount of UAH 1.313 billion, which is 38.67% more than a year earlier, and net premiums in the amount of UAH 1.261 billion (37.11%).
These statistics are provided on the website of RA Standard-Rating regarding the update of the company’s credit rating/financial stability (reliability) rating at the level of “uaААА” on the national scale based on the results of the first quarter of 2025.
Revenues from individuals increased by 40.33% to UAH 711.167 million, while revenues from reinsurers decreased by 44.65% to UAH 2.967 million. Thus, at the end of the first quarter of 2025, individuals accounted for 54.18% of the insurer’s gross premiums, while reinsurers accounted for 0.23%.
Insurance payments sent to reinsurers in January-March 2025 increased by 91.63% compared to the same period in 2024, to UAH 51.912 million. The share of reinsurance companies in insurance premiums increased to 3.96%.
The volume of insurance payments made by the insurer in the first quarter of 2025 increased by 13.92% compared to the first quarter of 2024, to UAH 491.205 million. Given the higher growth rate of gross premiums compared to insurance payments, the level of payments decreased by 8.14 percentage points, to 37.42%. to 37.42%.
As of April 1, 2025, the company’s assets grew by 6.41% to UAH 5.555 billion, equity increased by 1.99% to UAH 2.686 billion, liabilities increased by 10.90% to UAH 2.869 billion, cash and cash equivalents grew by 41.96% to UAH 1.161 billion.
According to the results of the first three months of 2025, the operating loss amounted to UAH 30.5 million, and net profit amounted to UAH 52.513 million.
The information also reports that as of the beginning of the second quarter of 2025, the insurer made financial investments in the amount of UAH 2.664 billion, consisting of government bonds (73.83% of the investment portfolio) and deposits in banks with an investment credit rating (26.17% of the portfolio). Thus, as of the reporting date, the liquid assets exceeded the liabilities of ARX Insurance Company by 1.33 times.
ARX Insurance Company was established in 1994 and is part of the international insurance holding company Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. ARX Insurance Company is one of the five leading insurance companies in Ukraine in terms of premiums collected and payments made. It has been the leader in the CASCO segment of the Ukrainian market for 16 years.
