Zeleny Park LLC (Iziaslav, Khmelnytsky region), which produces corrugated paper (fluting) and containerboard, increased its production by 18.9% in 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, to UAH 581 million.
According to UkrPapir Association’s statistics provided to Interfax-Ukraine, the company’s output in physical terms increased by 6.1% last year to 32.7 thousand tons.
Also in December, the company increased its production of fluting and testliner by 27.6% by December 2023 and by 95% by November 2024, to 3.7 thousand tons.
Zelenyi Park LLC was registered in 2011 and manufactures products from waste paper, processing up to 72 thousand tons of waste paper annually.
The factory is equipped with Finnish Valmet equipment, which allows it to produce fluting and testliner with a density of 70 to 200 g/sq. m and a roll width of up to 2.8 m.
According to the Clarity Project, the owner of 100% of Zelenyi Park LLC is Cyprus-registered Carton Mill Limited, and the ultimate beneficiaries are ATB Corporation co-owner Gennadiy Butkevych and Volodymyr Shandra (full name is the same as the full name of the former Minister of Industrial Policy (2005-2006) and the former Minister of Emergency Situations (2007-2010) – IF-U).
The company ended 2023 with a loss of UAH 78.2 million (56% more than a year earlier) on a 6.8% drop in revenue to UAH 498.6 million.
Ukraine’s largest one dollar store chain Aurora invested UAH 2.5 billion in the development of the chain in Ukraine in 2024, said CEO Taras Panasenko.
On Facebook, he said that the chain’s revenue for the year amounted to UAH 38.5 billion (excluding VAT), with more than 10 million unique customers.
“More than 600 partners of Aurora Multimarket are Ukrainian producers. They supply 46% of the assortment of Ukrainian products to our store shelves. 70% of them are non-food products. Together with our customers, we are giving new life to the Ukrainian light industry. In addition, this means additional billions of hryvnias of added value in Ukraine and tens of thousands of people employed. It is also an export window for Aurora in Romania,” he wrote.
“In 2024, Aurora Multimarket paid UAH 6.4 billion in taxes and fees, including UAH 2 billion in customs duties, UAH 1.6 billion in sales VAT, and UAH 737.3 million in unified social tax.
Local budgets received a total of UAH 643.5 million in personal income tax (PIT). According to Panasenko, Aurora currently employs more than 15,000 people and creates 2-3,000 new jobs every year. The average salary at Aurora in 2024 is significantly higher than the industry average.
“Taxes on the salaries of each store or warehouse are paid to local budgets at the place of operation. So having Aurora nearby is always a plus for the city. For example, due to the fact that the head office is located in Poltava, Aurora is by far the largest taxpayer in the budget of the Poltava territorial community, having paid more than UAH 199 million in personal income tax,” said Panasenko.
The head office of the Aurora retail chain is located in Poltava. “Aurora was founded in 2011 by Lev Zhidenko, Taras Panasenko and Lesya Klymenko. As of October 1, 2024, the chain has 1533 stores in Ukraine and 25 in Romania. The company employs about 14 thousand people.
According to Opendatabot, the owner of Vygidna Kupil LLC, which develops the chain, is Aurorityl Investments Limited of Cyprus, and its beneficiary is Zhydenko. The Cypriot company also owns Prior Development LLC, Seven A LLC, Promyslova 9 LLC, and Tak LLC.
In 2024, Ukrgasvydobuvannya JSC increased commercial gas production by 5.3% (by 0.7 bcm) compared to 2023 – up to 13.9 bcm, the press service of Naftogaz Group reports.
According to it, last year the company commissioned 83 new wells, of which 60 were production wells and 23 were exploration wells.
“UGV also increased the number of directional wells drilled from 51 to 60 over the year, which allows for gas production in hard-to-reach areas. In addition, the company drilled 370 thousand meters over the year, which is 14% more than in 2023.
“Naftogaz Group not only maintains stability, but also demonstrates an increase in gas production. Every day our people demonstrate the ability to adapt to current challenges and ensure development even in the most difficult conditions. I am grateful to my colleagues for their teamwork and sincere dedication to the profession,” said Roman Chumak, Acting Chairman of Naftogaz of Ukraine. Roman Chumak.
As reported, Ukrgasvydobuvannya produced 13.224 billion cubic meters of commercial gas in 2023, which is 0.679 billion cubic meters more than in 2022.
NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine owns 100% of Ukrgasvydobuvannya shares.
PJSC Ukrnafta has announced a tender for 3D seismic surveys at Verkhnemaslovetske and South-Eastern part of Novoskhidnytske fields.
According to the company’s announcement in Prozorro, the expected value of the tender is UAH 256 million (excluding VAT), and the auction is scheduled to start on January 23.
As reported, in 2025 Ukrnafta intends to drill about 30 new wells and conduct 3D seismic surveys over almost 1,250 square kilometers of land.
“Ukrnafta is Ukraine’s largest oil producer and operator of a national network of gas stations. In March 2024, the company took over management of Glusco’s assets and operates 547 filling stations – 462 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, the company has been issuing its own fuel coupons and NAFTAKarta cards, which are sold to legal entities and individuals through Ukrnafta-Postach LLC.
“Ukrnafta holds 92 special permits for commercial development of fields. It has 1832 oil and 154 gas production wells on its balance sheet.
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 owned by private owners, which is now managed by the Ministry of Defense.
At the meeting on February 7, the shareholders of VUSO Insurance Company (Kyiv) plan to decide to allocate UAH 44.959 million of retained earnings for 2023 for dividends, the company reported in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC).
At the same time, it is specified that the rest of the profit for 2023 in the amount of UAH 16.106 million is planned to remain undistributed. The company’s total net profit for 2023 amounted to UAH 61.065 million.
The agenda of the meeting also specifies that dividends will be paid in full directly to shareholders in accordance with the procedure established by law within six months from the date of the relevant decision by the general meeting of shareholders.
VUSO Insurance Company was founded in 2001. The company holds 50 licenses: 34 – for voluntary and 16 – for compulsory types of insurance, and is represented in all regions of Ukraine. VUSO is a member of the Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine (MTIBU), the League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine, and the Nuclear Insurance Pool.
The volume of commercial output of Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill (Kyiv KPK, Obukhiv, Kyiv region), Ukraine’s industry leader in this indicator, amounted to almost UAH 7 billion 984 million in 2024, up 5.5% from 2023, according to statistics from Ukrpapir Association.
According to the statistics provided toInterfax-Ukraine, in physical terms, the plant’s production of corrugated boxes is almost the same as last year’s figure of 228.27 million square meters, which is consistently the best in the industry.
Cardboard production decreased by 5.4% to 156 thousand tons, including production of containerboard by 6.3% to 126.5 thousand tons and boxboard by 1.4% to 29.6 thousand tons.
The production of base paper for sanitary and hygiene products increased by 5.8% to 48.4 thousand tons, and the output of toilet paper in rolls increased by 4.7% to 271.8 million units.
The plant is a stable leader in the production of toilet paper in Ukraine: in 2024, the industry’s main enterprises produced a total of 640.4 million rolls, which is 4.5% more than in 2023.
According to the Association’s data obtained from the main industry enterprises, last year in Ukraine the production of cardboard boxes increased by 12.3% to 590.1 million square meters, paper and cardboard by 3.1% to 601 thousand tons by 2023 (in particular, cardboard production decreased by 0.7% to 463.5 thousand tons, paper production increased by 18.2% to 137.5 thousand tons).
At the same time, the association states that compared to pre-war 2021, the production of corrugated boxes decreased by 21.8%, cardboard – by 37%, and paper – by 14.8%.
Kyiv PDA is the parent company of the eponymous group of companies, one of the largest cardboard and paper products producers in Europe with a staff of more than 2,500 people.
It has, among other things, a 240,000-tonne-per-year cardboard production facility and a 355 million-square-meter corrugated packaging plant, as well as a production facility for the production of base paper and finished products with an annual capacity of 70,000 tons of base paper.
According to the company, last year it paid UAH 1.5 billion in taxes to the budgets, including UAH 1.3 billion to the state budget and UAH 0.205 billion to the local budget.
The Group of companies also includes five procurement enterprises (waste paper and recyclables collection), Palm Mill Print LLC in Kyiv (production of cardboard, flexible, flexo packaging and printing of periodicals) and the transport company Avtospetstrans-KPK.
As reported, in 2023, the plant produced products worth UAH 7 billion 568 million, up 1.8% year-on-year.
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