Druzhkovka Metalware Plant (DZMZ, Donetsk region) intends to allocate UAH 19.936 million to pay dividends based on the results of its operations in 2023.
This main issue is on the agenda of the general meeting of shareholders scheduled for October 18, 2024, which will be held remotely.
The draft decision provides for the payment of dividends from retained earnings for 2023 in the amount of UAH 0.30 per 1 share (total number of shares – 66 million 453,976 thousand). Dividends will be paid directly to shareholders.
In 2023, the net profit of the company amounted to UAH 24.049 million, and in 2022 – UAH 33.832 million.
At a meeting held on April 29, 2024, the shareholders decided to leave the profit for 2023 undistributed and not to accrue or pay dividends.
Druzhkovka Metal Products Plant specializes in the production of hardware products: bolts, nuts, rivets for general engineering, fasteners for the upper structure of railway tracks, high-strength fasteners for building and bridge structures. In May 2022, the company issued an order to terminate employment contracts due to Russia’s military aggression and the inability to carry out production and business activities. Later, the company changed its legal address from Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, to Dnipro, Dnipro region.
According to the fourth quarter of 2022, the company’s shares were owned by an individual Oleksiy Spyridonov, who held 14.9949%, Olena Mishchenko-Solona (resident of Spain) – 13.0304%, Iryna Mishchenko – 24.5167%, Serhiy Popkov – 5.8611%, Anton Malikov – 9.75%, Olena Malikova – 8.25%, Valeriy and Dmytro Malikov – 9.774% each.
The authorized capital of the company is UAH 3.323 million, the nominal value of 1 share is UAH 0.05.
Poninkivska Cardboard and Paper Mill-Ukraine (PKPF-Ukraine, Khmelnytsky region), a major Ukrainian corrugated cardboard producer, increased its corrugated packaging output by 19% in January-August 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, to 63.64 million square meters.
According to statistics provided to Interfax-Ukraine by Ukrpapir Association, the mill continues to be one of the top three producers of corrugated packaging after Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill and Trypillia Packaging Plant.
Over eight months, the company also increased its production of containerboard (including corrugated paper) by 4.1% to 51.3 thousand tons, and produced more paper by 75% to 0.72 thousand tons.
In monetary terms, in January-August, PCBF-Ukraine produced products worth UAH 1 billion 742.5 million (+16.5%).
As reported with reference to the data collected by the association from the main enterprises of the industry, in January-August 2024, the production of paper and cardboard in Ukraine increased by 3% compared to the same period in 2023 – up to 390.5 thousand tons, cardboard boxes – by 17%, to 384.3 million square meters.
Poninkivska Paper Mill (formerly Poninkiv Cardboard and Paper Mill), once the largest producer of school notebooks, now has one main production line – paper and cardboard, producing mainly corrugated cardboard and corrugated packaging, as well as wrapping and waste paper.
The plant is part of the United Cardboard Company-Ukraine (UCC, Lutsk) owned by businessman Mykola Lobov, whose production assets include, among others, Lutsk KPF-Ukraine (Volyn region), which produced 41.4 thousand tons of various cardboard in eight months (according to Ukrpapir), almost the same as last year, and 31.8 million square meters of corrugated boxes, compared to 2.7 million square meters a year earlier.
As reported, in 2023, PCBF-Ukraine produced products worth almost UAH 2 billion 450 million, up 3% year-on-year. Net profit increased 2.7 times to UAH 27 million.
In August 2024, TAS Insurance Group (Kyiv) paid UAH 149.7 million under the concluded insurance contracts, which is 30.7% more than the amount of the company’s indemnities for the same month last year, according to the insurer’s website.
More than a quarter of the volume of payments, or 28.7%, fell on hull insurance – UAH 42.9 million, which is 10.2% more than the corresponding figure for August 2023, 34.1%, or UAH 51.04 million – on MTPL (+25.8%), 16.7%, or UAH 25 million – on the Green Card (+37.8%).
The share of VHI in the company’s claims portfolio amounted to 14.9%, or UAH 22.23 million (+66.6%) for the first seven months of the year.
Under other insurance contracts, the company paid UAH 8.43 million (+2.4 times).
TAS Insurance Group was registered in 1998. It is a universal company offering more than 80 types of insurance products in various types of voluntary and compulsory insurance. It has an extensive regional network: 28 regional directorates and branches and 450 sales offices throughout Ukraine.
Lausanne, Switzerland, will host the Ukrainian Mine Action Conference (UMAC2024) on October 17-18, the Swiss Federal Council has announced.
“The event, which Switzerland is organizing jointly with Ukraine, will focus on the global aspects of humanitarian demining, in particular the three main components: people, partners and progress,” the statement said.
The goal of UMAC2024 is to discuss the role of mine action and their technological innovations.
The UMAC2024 conference on mine action in Ukraine will be attended by government officials, representatives of international organizations, the private sector and the scientific community.
Switzerland will be represented by the President of the Swiss Confederation, Viola Amgerd, who will open the conference, and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ignazio Cassis.
Source: https://interfax.com.ua/
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 occurred in Romania at 17:40 Kyiv time, with tremors also felt in the city of Odesa. According to the website of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center, the epicenter was located in the Vrancha Zone in the Carpathians at a depth of 137 km.
Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov reported no casualties or damage in the city.
“An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 occurred in Romania. It was felt in Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine, including Odesa. There was no information about damage or injuries in the city,” Trukhanov wrote on Telegram.
In local social media, users reported that the tremors were also felt in Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, and Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast.
PJSC Ukrnafta imports gasoline and diesel fuel according to Euro-5 standards from Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, and Kuwait, the company’s press service reports.
In particular, it is diesel fuel and gasoline produced by Preem (Sweden), Orlen (Poland), Kuwait National Petroleum Company (Kuwait), Hellenic Petroleum and Motor Oil Hellas (both Greece).
“Ukrnafta is Ukraine’s largest oil producer and operator of a national network of filling stations. In March 2024, the company took over the management of Glusco assets and operates 545 filling stations – 460 owned and 85 managed.
The company is implementing a comprehensive program to restore operations and update the format of its filling stations. Since February 2023, Ukrnafta has been issuing its own fuel coupons and NAFTA cards, which are sold to legal entities and individuals through Ukrnafta-Postach LLC.
Ukrnafta’s largest shareholder is Naftogaz of Ukraine with a 50%+1 share. In November 2022, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to transfer to the state a share of corporate rights of the company, which belonged to private owners and is currently managed by the Ministry of Defense.
