Where most businesses are moving to
11,083 companies changed their legal registration address in 2024, according to the Unified State Register. Most of them are engaged in wholesale trade and construction. Kyiv became the leader in terms of registered and discharged businesses: almost the same number of companies relocated here and there last year.
More than 11 thousand companies relocated from one region to another last year. Relocations of companies due to the war decreased by 18% over the year. It is also 25% less than before the full-scale war.
32% of these companies are engaged in wholesale trade, and another 6% in construction. Real estate businesses round out the top three migrant companies with 4.8%.
Most businesses left Kyiv – 36.6% or 4 thousand companies. Another 10% each left Kyiv and Dnipro regions.
At the same time, the same regions are the most popular places for business relocation. 28% of companies registered in Kyiv. Another 11% relocated to Kyiv region, and 10% to Dnipropetrovs’k region.
The most popular relocation routes are as follows:
The largest company by revenue in Q3 2024 that relocated was ZE.TEK (UAH 6.7 billion), which trades in gas. Last year, it moved from Rivne region to Kyiv, but returned in 2025.
KVORUM-NAFTA(UAH 5.7 billion), a paper products company, relocated from Mykolaiv region to Kyiv. And ZOLOTYI DRAKON (UAH 4 billion in revenue), a wholesale company, moved from Vinnytsia region to Kyiv.
Context.
It is worth noting that companies can change their legal addresses several times a year. For example, Albakor, a wholesale trade company (UAH 4 billion in revenue), moved 5 times last year from Zaporizhzhia region to Dnipro region and back. Currently, the business is registered in the Dnipro region.
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