Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of November 26
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
ATB-Market LLC (Dnipro), owning the discount shop chain in Ukraine and part of the ATB Corporation, on November 15, 2019 opened its first store in Chernivtsi region, the press service of the company reported on Monday.
The new ATB store in the updated concept started operating at 219-E, Ruska Street in Chernivtsi. This is the 21st retail outlet that the company has opened in the Western region since the beginning of 2019. In general, the outlet became the 1043rd facility of the ATB network. Thus, on November 18, the company is present in 265 settlements and 24 regions of Ukraine.
“The priority for the development of the ATB group of companies this year remains to increase the presence of the company in the western and southern regions of Ukraine, as well as the continuation of work on updating retail facilities,” Director General of ATB Corporation Borys Markov said in a statement.
As reported, ATB-Market LLC in January-September 2019 increased goods turnover to UAH 86.3 billion, which is 17.2% of total goods turnover of Ukrainian retail enterprises.
In January-September, the average receipt for ATB stores increased by 14.9% or UAH 13.46 compared to the same period in 2018 and amounted to UAH 103.90. At the same time, an increase in the share of goods in the middle price segment is seen in the total turnover.
As reported, according to the results of 2018, the turnover of the ATB chain amounted to UAH 103.9 billion.
The retail chain of ATB-Market was founded in 1993.
Ukraine in January-September 2019 acquired nuclear fuel for a total amount of $259.132 million.
According to the State Statistics Service, in the nine months, Russian-made fuel for $158.496 million was purchased for Ukrainian nuclear power plants, while fuel worth $100.636 million was bought from Sweden.
Thus, the share of Ukrainian purchases of nuclear fuel for the indicated period from TVEL (Russia) in monetary terms amounted to 61.2%, from Westinghouse (Sweden) some 38.8%.
Regal Petroleum plc, a British oil and gas company with assets in Ukraine, has previously agreed on the purchase of PrJSC Ukrnaftinvest scientific and production concern, which holds licenses for the development of Biloliska and Alibeisko-Trapivska oil and gas fields.
According to a statement on the London Stock Exchange’s website, the parties signed the memorandum on the purchase of Ukrnaftinvest, 50% in which is owned by each of Lidia Chernysh and Bolaso Investments Limited of Leonid Kozachenko, which foresees a deal worth up to $40 million.
As reported, in 2018 Regal increased its net profit by 23.6 times compared to 2017, to $54.3 million. The net profit indicator included, among other things, the restoration of the value of assets (in the amount of $36.1 million due to revaluation of the remaining reserves on MEX-GOL and SV deposits), impaired in the previous periods.
The majority shareholder of Regal, which owns 82.65%, is Pelidona Services Limited (Cyprus) from Smart-Holding Group of Vadim Novinsky. Another 6.95% stake is held by Pope Asset Management.
Wimax Ltd. (Cyprus) has bought the shares of PJSC Chasiv Yar Refractory Plant (Donetsk region) from the family of former MP Vladyslav Lukyanov (the Party of Regions faction). According to a company report in the information disclosure system of the National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market, on the basis of information received from the National Depository on November 22, 2019, the shares of large shareholders changed.
Thus, the stake of the Lukyanov family members, including Vladyslav, who owned 24.573% of the shares in the plant, Volodymyr (22.901%), Artem (6.654%), and Daria (6.509%) fell to zero.
In turn, the stake in Wimax Ltd. increased from zero to 67.866% of the charter capital of the plant.
As reported, with reference to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, Vesco Limited (Limassol, Cyprus), which combines the clay mining business of UMG investment company of SCM Group, acquires PJSC Chasiv Yar Refractory Plant. In October 2019, the committee began consideration of the case of concentration in the form of the acquisition by Vesco Limited of the shares in the plant, which provides the buyer with over 50% of the voting shares on the company’s board.
The enterprises and organizations of Ukraine in January-September 2019 increased pretax profit from ordinary activities by 74.43%, to UAH 342.8 billion (UAH 196.5 billion in January-September 2018), the State Statistics Service has said. According to the service, in January-September 2019 Ukrainian enterprises that worked profitably received UAH 454.978 billion in profit, which is 28.9% more than in the same period in 2018.
At the same time, 22.7% of enterprises worked with a negative financial result. Their losses in January-September of this year decreased by 28.3% compared with January-September of last year, to UAH 112.169 billion.
