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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) doubles the electronic limit for investments of individuals abroad to EUR100,000 per year, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Yakiv Smolii has said.
“We are continuing currency liberalization. We are doubling the electronic limit for individuals’ investments abroad, to EUR100,000 per year,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv.
According to Smolii, such a decision was approved by the central bank simultaneously with the adoption of decisions on monetary policy on December 12.
PJSC Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant, following negotiations with the gas supplier, Agro Gas Trading LLC, has agreed to resume the independent sale of carbamide in the amount of 5,000 tonnes, which will allow it to receive additional technical refurbishment for at least UAH 3-5 million per month, the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) has said.
“The new supervisory board, together with the management of the plant, held talks with the gas supplier, during which the parties achieved significantly better conditions for the plant under the current contract … The price of processing under the contract was also increased,” the press release said.
According to the report, SPF Head Dmytro Sennychenko instructed the supervisory board of the plant no later than mid-January 2020 to announce an open tender for a gas supplier for the enterprise.
He also indicated that preparations for the privatization of the plant are ongoing, as scheduled.
As reported, in early November the SPF appointed deputy head of the SPF Serhiy Ihnatovsky new head of the plant supervisory board. Previously he served as director of the legal department of MES invest Ukraine LLC, Mriya Trading LLC.
RUSH LLC (Dnipro), the owner of the Eva perfume and cosmetics stores chain in Ukraine, plans to open the fourth distribution center in Odesa in 2021, Executive Director Olha Shevchenko has said in an interview with the Investory News publication.
“In 2020, we plan to increase the number of distribution centers to four. Currently, we are looking for a site in Odesa to launch a retail center in 2021,” Shevchenko said.
According to her, by the end of the year, the company also intends to expand the Eva network in Ukraine to 970 stores, as well as open 180 new outlets in 2020. The cost of opening one store is UAH 1-1.5 million, and the payback period is 2-4 years.
“Our plans are to expand the network to 970 stores by the end of the year. These are 210-212 new stores per year. [For 2020,] the plan is the same as it was for the current year – 180 stores. Mostly these will be western regions, where we are not yet represented as widely as in central and southern regions,” the director said, answering a question about plans for next year.
In addition, the retailer intends to launch a pilot store of a new format in the shopping and entertainment center in Dnipro in December 2019, and in 2020 – five more such stores in Kyiv and other cities.
“We have launched a fundamentally new format in test mode, whose working name is Eva Beauty so far. We will pay more attention to beauty categories. But home goods and household chemicals will not be presented there at all. This concept is designed for shopping centers, although it has the right to live in street retail,” Shevchenko added.
The company plans next year to launch its own courier delivery service in Kyiv, as well as increase the number of points of delivery of goods with online shopping.
According to Shevchenko, investments in the development of the Eva network in 2019 amounted to about UAH 400 million, half of which was invested in logistics and the development of e-commerce. At the same time, in 2016-2018, investments in the network amounted to UAH 800 million.
“The main area of investment [next year] will be the development of information technology, e-commerce and logistics,” the director said.
Enterprises managed by the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) in January-September 2019 manufactured products worth over UAH 3.046 billion and sold products UAH 3 billion and almost UAH 370 million of net profit was earned, the press service of the agency has reported.
According to the information presented at the meeting of the Collegium of the SSAU, in January-September 2019, two Antares launch vehicles (LV) were launched (a joint project with the United States), two launches of Vega LV were made (a joint project with the EU), and a control system was delivered to support manned space flight missions to the Soyuz LV. The first stage of the Antares LV, which will be launched in the first quarter of 2020, was sent to the spaceport in the United States.
“Over the first nine months of this year, industry enterprises manufactured products worth more than UAH 3.046 million, sold products worth more than UAH 3 billion. Production volumes increased by 9.3%,” the SSAU said in the press release issued after the meeting.
In particular, state-owned enterprise (SOE) Pivdenne (Yuzhnoye) Design Bureau increased the volume of commodity production by 19.4%, SOE Arsenal plant by 29%, State Enterprise of Special Engineering Arsenal by 204.9%, and SOE Kyivprylad production association by 88.9%.
“Products worth UAH 2.43 billion were exported (20% more than in the corresponding period of 2018). The share of product exports of total sales is 78.8%. Import volumes amounted to 3.1% of exports. That is, the industry remains export-oriented. In January-September 2019, the enterprises received net profit of UAH 369.68 million. Their profitability was 12%. The nominal average monthly wage in the industry increased by 5.8% compared to the beginning of the year and amounted to UAH 9,296,” the SSAU said.
According to the press release, speaking to the participants of the meeting, acting SSAU Head Volodymyr Mikheev said that “in the third quarter, the industry worked in extreme conditions.”
“First of all, due to minimal financing, the lack of government procurement order for the production of space technology, the space program for 2020 that has not been approved so far. However, thanks to its powerful engineering and production potential and skillful marketing, the industry worked profitably using the production opportunities of non-space sphere,” the agency’s press service said, quoting Mikheev as saying.
“After discussing the issues on the agenda, the Collegium adopted a decision aimed at further improving the industry and successfully completing the tasks of 2019,” the press service said.
