Koen Group LLC (Kyiv) plans to build a trade and exhibition center worth $500 million near Kyiv in four years, head of the company Naum Koen has said at a press conference. According to him, the complex will be located on a plot of 105 hectares 13 km from Kyiv on the Odesa highway. The project includes a wholesale market with a parking lot for 10,000 cars, as well as a large exhibition center with three hotels. The start of the project is January 2019. It is planned to open the wholesale market in two years, while the implementation of the exhibition center will take another two years.
“We also plan to build a large concert hall for 7,000 seats. There will be three complexes – a trade one, exhibition and a concert hall,” he told Interfax-Ukraine. According to him, the investor in the project could be Cyrus Poonawalla, the head of Poonawalla Group vaccine manufacturer. “I am interested in this project, but I should study it better and then make a decision on investing,” the expert said.
Koen Group LLC was registered in 2016. According to the unified state register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, its owner is Naum Koen. The charter capital of the company is UAH 300 000 000,00.
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The top 100 largest state-owned companies in Ukraine in 2017 saw net profit rise by 38.5% compared to 2016, to UAH 44.4 billion, while 88.5% of this amount was the profit of Naftogaz, according to data released by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. “The main factor of the growth of Naftogaz Ukrainy’s profit in 2017 was the victory in arbitration proceedings against Gazprom, due to which Naftogaz received the largest net profit for 20 years,” the ministry said, noting that in 2017 the net profit of Naftogaz increased to UAH 39.3 billion against UAH 17.8 billion in 2016.
The enterprises of state-regulated industries have become the most profitable in the list of the top 100 companies, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov said.
“At the same time, most companies remain extremely inefficient, as before. We have only one way out – to continue the corporate governance reform of those strategic state-owned companies that must remain in state ownership and hold a transparent privatization of other companies under the law adopted this year,” he said.
According to the ministry’s report, the total value of the assets of state-owned companies in 2017 compared to 2016 increased by 5% and amounted to more than UAH 1.509 trillion.
New renewable energy generating facilities with a total installed capacity of 160.1 MW were launched in Ukraine in July-September 2018, which is 2.4 times more than a year ago, the press service of the National Commission for the State Regulation of Energy, Housing and Utilities Services (NCER) has reported. “The share of wind farms and solar power plants is 97% of all facilities launched,” the commission said.
Wind farms with a total capacity of 7MW, solar power plants of 148.8 MW, biogas plants of 3.6 MW and small hydroelectric power plants of 0.7 MW were launched in Q3 2018.
Thus, as of October 1, 2018, Ukraine has wind farms with a total capacity of 522.4 MW, solar power plants – 1.096 GW, biomass plants – 43.8 MW, biogas plants – 44.6 MW, small hydroelectric power plants – 96.4 MW.
The total installed capacity of renewable energy facilities is 1.8 GW (not taking into account annexed Crimea where wind farms of 494.9 MW were launched earlier).
Today, the share of renewable energy of total electricity generation in Ukraine is 1.8%, and the share of the total cost of electricity is 8.3%.
Real wages in Ukraine in August 2018 compared to August 2017 increased by 15.7%, compared to July 2018 it fell by 2.1%, the State Statistics Service has reported.
It said the average nominal wage of full-time employees in August 2018 compared to July 2018 fell by 2.1%, in annual terms it rose by 26.2%, amounting to UAH 8,977, while in July it was UAH 9,170, in June UAH 9,141, in May UAH 8,725, in April some UAH 8,480, in March some UAH 8,382, in February some UAH 7,828, and in January UAH 7,711.
According to statistics, the largest growth in the average wage of full-time employees in August 2018 compared with August 2017 was recorded in Poltava (30.7%), Ternopil (30.2%), Vinnytsia (29.5%), Volyn (27.9%), Kherson (26.7%), Kyiv (27% ), Zhytomyr (26.7%), Odesa (26.7%), Zakarpattia (26.5%), Kirovohrad (26.2%), Lviv (26%), Zaporizhia (25.9%), Cherkasy (25.6%), Rivne (25.1%), Kharkiv (24.7%), Chernihiv and Sumy (24.2% each), Ivano-Frankivsk and Mykolaiv (24% each), Khmelnytsky (23.8%), Chernivtsi (23.5%) regions and Kyiv city (23.4%).
Wage growth in Donetsk and Luhansk regions (excluding part of the joint forces operation) was 25.9% and 28.8% respectively.
The highest level of wages in the past month was recorded in Kyiv at UAH 13,659, the lowest one in Chernihiv region at UAH 6,883.
