Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

WIND SOLAR ENERGY INTENDS TO BUILD 57 MW WIND FARM IN ZHYTOMYR REGION

Wind Solar Energy LLC (Kyiv) intends to build the Lisova-2 wind power plant (Korosten district, Zhytomyr region) with a capacity of 57 MW, according to a single register of environmental impact assessment.
The project includes building 19 wind turbines with a capacity of 4.2 MW each. The height of the towers will be 130 meters. The operation life of the plant is 20 years.
As reported, Wind Solar Energy intends to build three phases of the Lisova wind plant with a total capacity of up to 190 MW in the area of the Pokaliv village (Korosten district, Zhytomyr region).
According to data posted on the company’s website, Wind Solar Energy through its subsidiary Solar Kvant has been operating solar plants of 5 MW on 10 hectares in Dnipropetrovsk region since 2013.

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UKRAINE AND GEORGIA COULD CREATE MEDICAL TOURISM CLUSTER TO ENTER EASTERN MARKETS

Ukraine and Georgia could create a medical tourism cluster to promote medical services in the markets of Eastern countries, in particular, China, Paata Ratiani, the head of the Georgian Medical Tourism Council, has said.
“Georgia, together with Ukraine, can open some directions in China, open a joint clinic, or Ukrainian and Georgian clinics can be combined into one cluster,” he said.
According to Ratiani, such a cluster can be formed together with the Ukrainian Association of Medical Tourism, as well as with individual clinics.
“We can occupy our niche in all directions. Most importantly, we should work together and develop precisely those directions that have an advantage in their region. In this case, the flow of medical tourists will be enough for both Ukraine and Georgia,” the expert said.
Commenting on the development of medical tourism in Georgia, he said that in order to attract foreign patients, six large private clinics in his country created the Medical Tourism Council.
“Georgian private clinics teamed up to make Georgia a regional hub for medical tourism,” he said.

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UKRAINIAN ASCANIA GROUP INVESTS UAH 17 MLN IN PRODUCTION OF CIDER AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

Ascania group of companies, a diversified Ukrainian holding, in 2018-2019 invested UAH 17 million in the launch of production of cider and non-alcoholic beverages in PET bottles at the Kvass Beverages plant (Zaporizhia).
“This year we’ve presented a large number of new products in the Ukrainian market. For the first time, we bottled cider in PET under the GardenZ brand, produced the Yarylko Karamelny kvass for children, launched the Yarylo Bily Imbyrny (Yarylo White Ginger) brand. In August 2018, we started producing lemonade in PET at the Kvass Beverages plant. Investments in the enterprise to launch output of cider and new products in PET accounted for a total of about UAH 17 million,” Inna Syrchenko, the head of the marketing department at Ascania FMCG, told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to her, the products of the plant are represented in the stores ATB, Silpo, Novus, Billa and other retail outlets.
Ascania group of companies unites 12 companies. Their activities include import, production and distribution of food, honey processing and exports, logistics services, electricity supply, production of small arms, security services and training for the security personnel of private and state structures, agriculture (growing roses).

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UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS COMMISSION PROCESSES 99.9% OF E-PROTOCOLS

After the Ukrainian Central Elections Commission (CEC) has processed 99.9% of electronic protocols, the Servant of the People Party gained 43.16% of the vote, the Opposition Platform – For Life Party – 13.04%, the Batkivschyna party – 8.18%, the European Solidarity Party – 8.1%, and the Holos (Voice) Party – 5.82% and won seats on the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation on the party lists.
The Radical Party with 4.01%, the Strength and Honor Party with 3.82%, the Opposition Bloc with 3.03%, Groysman’s Ukrainian Strategy with 2.41% failed to overcome a 5% electoral threshold, the CEC website published its data as of 13:00 on Thursday, July 25.
The Party of Sharij received 2.23% of the vote, Svoboda 2.15%, Civil Position 1.04%.
Parties gaining less than 1% of the vote are the Party of Greens of Ukraine (0.66%) and Samopomich (0.62%).
The snap election to the Verkhovna Rada was held on July 21.

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PEUGEOT CITROEN OPENS ONE MORE DEALER CENTER IN UKRAINE

Peugeot Citroen Ukraine, the official importer of PSA Group in Ukraine, which has been managing the sales and service of Opel in Ukraine since January 1, 2019, as part of the renewal of its dealer network has opened six new dealer centers since the start of 2019: in Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, and Dnipro.
According to the press service of the company, at the beginning of summer the Opel Autohaus VIPOS dealer center opened near the center of Kyiv. The salon is designed for ten cars. There is also a service station with 14 posts for car maintenance/repair, a body repair shop and painting works will be organized.
In addition, the Opel Autocentre on Stolychne dealer center opened in the capital in April (as part of the UkrAVTO auto city), which has now become a large car dealer center with an exposition of ten cars and a service station with an area of 2,400 square meters with 24 lifts and the ability to serve up to 60 cars per day. The automobile center works with clients from the capital and the nearest cities and towns, namely Obukhiv, Vasylkiv, and Ukrainka.

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NEW CINEMA OF PLANETA KINO NETWORK TO OPEN IN KYIV’S RIVER MALL TRADE CENTER

The opening of a new cinema of the Planeta Kino network in the River Mall shopping and entertainment center on Dniprovska Embankment in Kyiv is scheduled for August 1, Dmytro Derkach, the co-owner of the chain, said on Facebook. “Many of you ask me when is the opening in River Mall. Now I can answer – in a week, on August 1 (if no force majeure happens). Our cinema and the entire mall were ready to open for almost a month, but state agencies did not issue the necessary documents. Yesterday we received everything,” Derkach said.
He told Interfax-Ukraine the cinema will be the first facility to open in River Mall. “Most likely, we will be the only one who will open in the mall, stores will open from August 8,” he said.
Triumph Media Group LLC is developing the Planeta Kino network of cinemas. According to the unified state register, the owner of the company is Moviemax Limited (Cyprus), the ultimate beneficiaries are Dmytro Derkach and Andriy Shpyh. The charter capital is UAH 43 million.
The Planeta Kino network as of July-2019 had seven cinemas in Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Sumy. This year it is planned to open new cinemas in the Apollo shopping center (Dnipro), the River Mall shopping center and the Ocean Mall trade center (Kyiv).

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