In 2024, KSG Agro received $3.662 million in operating profit against a $1.615 million loss a year earlier, according to the agricultural holding’s report on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
According to the report, KSG Agro’s revenue from sales in 2024 increased by 17.6% to $22.103 million from $18.786 million.
“By continuing to implement the development strategy of a vertically integrated holding, we have achieved improved financial performance in two of our strategically important business areas – crop production and pig production. The main factor behind the positive dynamics was the increase in the efficiency of the pig business in 2024 by updating the herd with sows of modern efficient genetics. As confirmed by a series of tests we conducted in early 2023, the productivity of the purchased sows is quite high not only in terms of the number of litters and farrowing weight, but also in terms of pork quality,” said Sergiy Kasyanov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KSG Agro.
According to him, based on the tests conducted, 1.3 thousand heads of the identified low-productive sows in the herd were replaced with purchased more efficient ones during the year. This allowed the holding to produce high quality piglets and ensure high dynamics of the pig breeding business.
Kasyanov added that the main drivers of KSG Agro’s further development, including in 2025, will be increasing the efficiency of crop production and increasing the productivity of the pig herd by continuing to rejuvenate the pig population.
KSG Agro, a vertically integrated holding company, is engaged in pig production, as well as the production, storage, processing and sale of grains and oilseeds. Its land bank in Dnipropetrovska and Khersonska oblasts is about 21 thousand hectares.
According to the agricultural holding, it is one of the top five pork producers in Ukraine. In 2023, it launched a “network-centric” strategy, which will shift from developing a large location to a number of smaller pig farms located in different regions of Ukraine.
In the first quarter of 2024, KSG Agro decreased its net profit by 37% to $0.96 million on a 2% decrease in revenue to $5.02 million. Its EBITDA decreased by 2% to $1.83 million.
The acute issue of returning citizens from abroad can only be solved by creating competitive opportunities in Ukraine, said Vasyl Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder of UFuture holding, UNIT.City innovation park and Bila Tserkva industrial park, at the forum “Industrial Evolution: Production Turns on the Economy” forum held in Bila Tserkva on Thursday.
“People often ask what needs to be done to bring our people back from abroad. I see no other way but to create competitive opportunities in Ukraine – quality education, jobs, decent wages, living standards and services. An industrial park is just such a point of economic growth and a magnet for innovation, investment and talent,” Khmelnytsky emphasized.
Thanks to the support of industrial parks by the state and the local community, the country receives investments.
“Last year, we transferred UAH 18 million in taxes to the local budget from Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, this year (we expect) UAH 25 million, and next year – UAH 50 million. In 20 years, it will be more than a billion. And this is only the local level. Today we are laying the foundation for the future for decades to come,” he said.
He thanked for the important steps the government is taking to support industrial parks.
“The Ministry of Economy has made a powerful decision to compensate 50% of the costs of building communications when creating industrial parks. I am also grateful to the Kyiv Regional State Administration for its assistance in organizing the forum, as well as to the previous head of the administration – with his support we started working on the creation of our industrial park. And with the support of the local community, deputies and the head of the city council, we managed to implement the laying of roads and communications in the park,” the entrepreneur said.
As reported, the Finnish Peikko Group Corporation announced on Thursday the commissioning of an industrial building for the future plant for the production of concrete joints and composite structures in the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, with planned investments of EUR 3 million.
“The Finnish company is not just investing, but also sharing knowledge and experience, training our people. English and German companies are also building their production facilities here. There are also Ukrainian enterprises from Kharkiv and Sumy, real heroes who have not gone abroad but continue to work in Ukraine,” Khmelnytsky emphasized.
He recalled how twenty years ago he was invited to a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister as an entrepreneur to share his vision of how to ensure rapid economic growth. “I honestly answered that I didn’t know how to achieve growth in a few months. But I know what we need to do now to make Ukraine a strong economy in 15-20 years: develop industrial parks, production, and education. Back then, we were not ready for this. Today I see that we are moving in the right direction,” Khmelnytsky emphasized.
He noted that the trend toward industrial recovery is global, for example, the United States is considering investing $1 trillion in its own industrial parks to bring back production from China.
The Bila Tserkva Industrial Park (IP), a project of the UFuture holding company of entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky, envisages attracting 30 resident companies and $250 million in investments by 2030, creating up to 4,000 jobs.
Source: https://interfax.com.ua/news/economic/1067627.html
The Ukrainian company City One Development and the diversified investment corporation ITOXI Corp. (South Korea) have signed a memorandum of long-term cooperation, a partnership of a strategic nature aimed at developing glass production in Ukraine, the press service of City One Development toldInterfax-Ukraine.
“We are pleased that our efforts to attract a foreign partner from a friendly country have resulted in a real deal. This is only the first step on the long road to implementing our joint plans, and we are confident that our partnership will make an important contribution to the development of the Ukrainian economy,” said Valeriy Kodetsky, President of City One Development Group, as quoted in the press release.
It is specified that the memorandum, signed in April 2025 during the visit of the Korean delegation to Ukraine, stipulates that at the first stage of the project, two glass production plants will be built within the City of Glass (Berezan, Kyiv region) and Galicia (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region) industrial parks. This project will be an important milestone for the introduction of modern technologies, creation of new jobs and strengthening Ukraine’s position as a high-quality glass producer.
“We are confident that our joint work will open up new horizons for investment and technological progress. Ukraine has great potential and we are proud to be part of this ambitious initiative. The signed memorandum is an important milestone that confirms our intention to invest in the development of the country’s glass industry. We are currently finalizing an agreement to acquire a stake in the project,” said Alex Cheon, CEO of ITOXI Corp.
City One Development started construction of the first float glass plant in Berezan at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022. The plant’s capacity is to produce 600 tons of glass per day, and the project is estimated at $140 million. It is being implemented as part of the Misto Skla IP. At the end of 2024, the company began construction of a second plant within the Galicia IP.
The first plant is expected to be commissioned in 2027 and the second in 2028.
City One Development is an investment and development company with over 15 years of experience. The company specializes in the creation, implementation and management of large-scale infrastructure residential complexes and actively invests in the development of Ukrainian industry.
City One Development’s portfolio includes more than 1 million 150 thousand square meters of completed projects and 600 thousand square meters under construction.
The company’s residential projects in the capital include: “Novopecherski Lypky, Boulevard of Fountains, Svyatobor Park Resort, and The Light. Among the industrial projects are two float glass factories within the City of Glass and Galicia.
ITOXI Corp is a leading investment company operating in various segments, from computer games to medical equipment and the implementation of large infrastructure projects in the international arena. In November 2023, ITOXI UA was founded with an authorized capital of UAH 8.7 million. The founders are ITOXI Corp (51%) and Roman Hryhoryshyn (49%).
According to the website, ITOXI UA is a platform for commercial B2B cooperation that connects Ukrainian companies with Korean partners. Currently, it unites 214 partners in Ukraine and 62 in the Republic of Korea, with more than 17 projects in the works.
Global lead and zinc production will exceed demand in 2025, according to the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG).
Refined lead production is expected to increase by 1.9% to 13.27 million tons this year. This will mainly be driven by increased production in China, India, Mexico and the US, while Europe and South Korea are expected to reduce output.
Global lead consumption may increase by 1.5% to reach 13.19 million tons. Growth is expected, in particular, in Brazil, India and Japan, and a decline in South Korea.
In the US, demand for metal fell by 8.3% last year, but is expected to rise by 4.3% in 2025. In Europe, due to the decline in car production in 2024, lead consumption decreased by 4.4%, and is expected to increase by 1.8% this year. Consumption in China is expected to grow by 0.9% in 2025 after a 1.3% decline last year.
Thus, in 2025, the global market will have a surplus of lead in the amount of about 82 thousand tons, ILZSG said in a statement.
Refined zinc production in the world this year is expected to increase by 1.8% to 13.73 million tons.
Production in China will increase by 3.8% (after falling by 3.4% in 2024). Output is also expected to grow in Norway, where Boliden has recently completed the expansion of its Odda plant’s production capacity by 150 thousand tons per year. Meanwhile, zinc production is expected to decline in Italy and Japan due to the closure of Glencore and Toho Zinc’s facilities in these countries, as well as in South Korea.
Consumption of the metal may grow by 1% this year to reach 13.64 million tons. In particular, demand in China is expected to increase by 0.9% (after a 1.9% decline last year). Experts also expect consumption to rise in Brazil, India and Turkey, as well as decline in South Korea.
“Any deterioration in the global economic outlook due to uncertainty over trade policy is likely to have a negative impact on the outlook for zinc demand,” the report says.
The global zinc surplus in 2025 is projected at 93 thousand tons.
The ILZSG, established by the United Nations in 1959, provides information on supply and demand for zinc and lead and conducts research on the situation on the world markets for these metals. The Group’s members are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, the United States and the European Union. These countries account for more than 85% of the world’s lead and zinc production and consumption.
After the war is over, Ukraine will become one of the world’s largest centers for reconstructive surgery and treatment of mine-blast injuries, predicts plastic surgeon and founder of the Lita Plus clinic Serhiy Derbak.
“In 2014, when we started operating on wounded soldiers, it became the starting point for modern reconstructive surgery in Ukraine. And after 2022, with the outbreak of a full-scale war, the number of reconstructive surgeries and new reconstructive surgery centers in Ukraine became unprecedented. I am convinced that after the war is over, Ukraine will become one of the strongest centers in the world in terms of experience in dealing with war and mine-blast injuries,” he said in an interview withInterfax-Ukraine.
Derbak noted that “today in Ukraine there is a real boom in the development of microsurgery and reconstructive surgery.”
“Although I wish these circumstances had not arisen, this is a time of extraordinary professional development for professional surgeons. After all, mine-blast injuries are unpredictable, each case is unique and requires maximum skill,” he said.
In March 2025, dairy farms of all categories of producers produced 556 thousand tons of raw milk, which is 117 thousand tons or 27% more than in February 2025, but 20 thousand tons or 4% less than in March 2024, according to the Association of Milk Producers (AMP).
The industry association noted that the volume of milk yield in Ukraine in January-March 2025 amounted to 1.44 million tons, which is 53 thousand tons (-4%) less than last year. In March 2025, the share of enterprises in the production of raw milk amounted to 49%, and households – 51%.
According to the report, in March 2025, enterprises produced 272 thousand tons of raw milk, which is 33 thousand tons more (+14%) compared to February 2025 and 16 thousand tons more (+6%) compared to March 2024. In January-March 2025, MTFs produced 771 thousand tons of raw milk, which is 37 thousand tons (+5%) more than in the previous year.
In March 2025, milk yields in private households amounted to 284 thousand tons, which is 84 thousand tons more (+42%) than in February 2025, but 37 thousand tons less (-11%) than in March 2024. In January-March 2025, the private sector produced 676 thousand tons of raw milk, which is 90 thousand tons (-12%) less than in the previous year.
AVM analyst Giorgi Kukhaleishvili emphasized that in the first quarter of 2025, the number of regions where MTFs increased their production of raw milk increased. Khmelnytsky, Ternopil and Zhytomyr regions are among the new leaders in terms of production. However, the increase in milk yields in the industrial sector is not entirely beneficial for the dairy industry amid the unstable situation on the finished dairy products market, the global dairy market, and the unstable dynamics of purchase prices.
“The volume of dairy production in Ukraine is currently outstripping the volume of its sales. The domestic market is experiencing a decline in demand for dairy products amid intensified rocket and bomb attacks by the Russian occupiers on cities with a population of over a million people and the outflow of their residents abroad. At the same time, dairy processing enterprises are striving to help restore demand for dairy products from the population through discounts and promotional offers in retail chains,” the business association explained.
Further increase in cheese imports is also a threat to the development of the industry, at the current rate of imports, by the end of 2025 the share of imported cheese in the Ukrainian market may reach 80%, which will force domestic cheese factories to stop their work and the situation with a surplus of milk may worsen.
The EBA emphasized that the potential threat of foot-and-mouth disease, which has been reported in Hungary and Slovakia, is a challenge for the Ukrainian dairy industry.
“The spread of the disease creates risks of increased culling of infected livestock and the introduction of quarantine restrictions on farms, a ban on the export of dairy products from Ukraine,” the industry association summarized.
