Golden Tile ceramic group in the first half of 2018 increased tile exports by 21%, to 2.8 million square meters, Oleh Lysokon, the deputy chairman of the Golden Tile board, has told Interfax-Ukraine. According to him, the group also increased domestic sales to 4.2 million square meters, which is 10% more than in the first half of 2017. According to the group’s report on its website, in the second half of this year Golden Tile plans to export 2 million square meters of tiles. The geography of its exports covers 26 countries. The key areas of foreign trade are Great Britain, Germany, Romania, Hungary, and Poland.
“The key to foreign markets is DIY networks. We sold 556,000 square meters of our products in foreign trade networks in the first half of 2018. The growth compared to 2017 was 54%. Ukrainian tiles took their place on the shelves of the largest European trade networks: Leroy Merlin, Praktiker, Mercury Market, Hornbach, OBI, and Arabesque,” chairman of the group board Dmytro Salimonov said.
According to him, the group plans to open a representative office in Israel and Lithuania, as well as to sign a contract with the British DIY networks ToppsTiles and Homebase.
Golden Tile ceramic group is a vertically integrated group of companies providing a full cycle of production and distribution of ceramic tiles.
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Damage to Pak-Expo Leasing LLC (Slavutych, Kyiv region), a plant for production of one-component polyethylene caps for PET bottles, from an attempted raider seizure amounted to UAH 600,000.
“More than 40 unknown masked persons at 17:30 on August 8 seized the production facilities of Pak-Expo Leasing and had been holding them until 24:00. After the intervention of law enforcement officers, the raiders left the premises,” director general of the company Valeriy Savchenko said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.
The company reported that the leader of the illegal capture had been detained by the law enforcers.
According to lawyer of Pak-Expo Leasing Maksym Zavorotniuk, the “standard raider scheme – the alienation of property rights through the state registrar on fictitious documents” was launched in relation to the company.
“This happened on August 7-8, but we reacted quickly and noted the registration actions, thus renewing the property rights in the state register of rights to immovable property. A lawsuit has been filed with the Economic Court of Kyiv region on invalidating the documents on the basis of which the raider seizure took place,” the lawyer said.
The core business of Pak-Expo Leasing, operating in the Ukrainian market since 2004, is the production and sale of single-component polyethylene screw caps for carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, juices, and dairy products.
Since 2004, the company has invested EUR8 million in its development.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has allowed PJSC Closed-End Non-Diversified Venture Corporate Investment Fund “Hunter” (Kyiv) to acquire more than 50% in charter capital of the resort and spa operator PrJSC Truskavetskurort (Lviv region). This was reported by the AMCU’s press service. PrJSC Truskavetskurort incorporates such health resorts as Vesna (Spring), Krystal (Crystal), Almaz (Diamond), Yantar (Amber), Rubin (Ruby Crystal), Berezka (Little Birch) (all based in Truskavets, Lviv region).
AXA Insurance (Kyiv) in January-June 2018 collected more than UAH 915.6 million in gross insurance premiums, which is 14%, or UAH 115 million, more than for the same period in 2017, according to a press release of the insurer. “For the first half of 2018, according to regulatory reporting, profit amounted to UAH 47.6 million. According to the standards of the AXA international group, our financial result amounted to UAH 105 million,” financial director of the company Mykola Ivaniniv said.
The company also reports that for the first six months of 2018 the volume of premiums on KASKO totaled UAH 523 million (10% more). Insurance premiums of individuals on KASKO in the total volume of premiums collected on this type of insurance are 66% (UAH 346 million). Income from voluntary medical insurance grew by 32%, premiums amounted to UAH 138 million.
Premiums for travel insurance also rose by 26% compared to last year, the total number of contracts was 60,000, the volume of insurance premiums stood at UAH 18.6 million with a growth of 60%.
AXA Insurance belongs to AXA Group (France). It has been represented in the Ukrainian insurance market since 2007. It employs more than 780 employees and has 1,220 agents throughout Ukraine.
