VILNIUS. Jan 21 (BNS) – Organizers of exhibitions are turning to the Ukrainian market as the free trade area agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, which came into force in the beginning of 2016, increases the interest of entrepreneurs in the country, writes the Verslo zinios business edition.
“Over the last two years interest in the Ukrainian market has fallen markedly compared to 2013, but this year we feel recovery, more and more requests appear, enterprises are interested in business opportunities in Ukraine,” director of the Autare company organizing exhibitions Tadas Dilys said.
According to him, Lithuanian companies are most interested in exhibitions in the field of construction and beauty industry.
Consensus Europae Director Simonas Zunda also confirmed the growth of such interest. He said in the past year they took only a few companies to Ukraine, while about 70 enterprises plan to attend exhibitions in 2016-2017.
According to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine plans in 2016 to hold 64 exhibitions. Of these 33 will be organized in Kyiv, eight in Zaporizhia, seven in Lviv, four in Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa, and three in Kharkiv.
