Veteran and civic activist Oleksandr Budko (Teren) has opened a franchise of the “Muza” ready-meal delivery service in Rivne, co-founded by chef Yevhen Klopotenko, according to Klopotenko’s press office.
“We spent a long time refining the ‘Muza’ franchise model before we began scaling it through partners. It’s important to me that people who open a franchise don’t just invest in the business, but also share our values. Oleksandr is exactly that kind of person,” commented Yevhen Klopotenko.
According to Teren, the decision to open a franchise was driven by a desire to influence the culinary culture in his hometown.
Klopotenko’s “Muza” delivery service specializes in restaurant-quality Ukrainian cuisine and is expanding through a franchise model. Rivne became the third city to host a location, following Kyiv and Lviv. The new location is at 32 Soborna St., Rivne. Orders can be placed via Glovo and Bolt Food, and customers can also pick up their orders in person.
Currently, the chain has 17 active locations (16 dark kitchens and one brick-and-mortar restaurant in Kyiv) and fulfills over 10,000 orders per month.
The “Muza” concept is “a restaurant at home without the cooking.” All dishes are created using Klopotenko’s original recipes. The menu features over 30 traditional Ukrainian dishes: borscht with smoked pear, bograch, varenyky, meat and fish cutlets, Poltava-style cutlet, as well as breakfasts, desserts, and signature fruit compotes and fruit drinks. The service’s pricing is designed for daily consumption. Prices for first courses start at 188 UAH, main courses at 225 UAH, and baked goods at 145 UAH.
The partners plan to launch an exclusive line called “Muza by Teren,” with the menu to be developed with the direct involvement of Oleksandr, who holds a degree in food technology.
In addition to Rivne, the “Musa” team is considering Dnipro, Odesa, Cherkasy, and Vinnytsia as priority cities for the project’s further development.
Alla Teliga, co-founder of Galya Baluwana and Wesola Pani chains, is launching a new franchise of a family cafe specializing in chebureks, Tsiberek, according to the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers.
According to the release, the first restaurant under the brand will be opened in Lutsk (2 Vynnychenka Street), scheduled to open in October. The menu was developed by Alla Teliga, the author of all recipes of the Galya Baluvana chain, and the famous chef Vladyslav Tsymbalyuk. The next step is to launch franchise sales.
Galya Baluvana was founded in 2019 in Lutsk. As of August 2024, Galya Baluwana had more than 950 stores and 172 franchisees. Since 2023, the company has stopped adding new partners to the Galya Baluwana joint network, and only franchisees who were previously included can open new outlets.
According to Opendatabot, Volodymyr Matviychuk and Oleksandr Teliga are the owners of the chain’s developer, Gostuyemo po domashnomu LLC (Lutsk). According to the company’s financial statements for 2022, its net profit for the year increased 3.5 times and amounted to UAH 14.9 million.
As reported, in January 2024, the Ukrainian chain of convenience stores Galya Baluwana opened its first store in Philadelphia (USA) under the MultiCook brand (developed by Volodymyr Matviychuk).
The Wesoła Pani chain of convenience food stores from the Ukrainian company Galya Baluwana (developed by Alla and Oleksiy Telig) is already represented by 140 outlets in three European countries (Poland, Latvia, and the Netherlands). Plans were announced to expand the chain in Poland to 500 stores.
The medical laboratory Cinevo has reopened 95% of its branches and 85% of its franchise outlets that were closed after the start of the full-scale invasion.
According to the medical laboratory in its press release, the Cinevo Ukraine laboratory network currently has 330 laboratory locations in 137 settlements, while before the full-scale invasion the network had 352 locations in 155 settlements.
The network also has seven operating laboratories in Kyiv, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Kherson, and Dnipro.
In addition, the network reports that Cinevo has reopened its laboratory in Kharkiv, which, like the laboratory in Kharkiv, has been suspended since the full-scale invasion for security reasons.
Synevo Ukraine, a European network of medical laboratories, is part of Medicover, a leading international healthcare and diagnostic services company. The international laboratory network Synevo is represented in 10 European countries, and Synevo laboratories operate in Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2017, Cinévo Ukraine, as part of Medicover, was listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm, becoming the first and only healthcare company in Ukraine to complete an IPO.
Creative States coworking space launches its own franchise in early 2021, founder of the Creative States network Ilia Kenigshtein has said. “We decided to launch our own franchise at Creative States. This is a venture project, we’ll see if it works or not, and we will make an estimate. We are launching the franchise early next year, the same Franch is preparing it for us, headed by Roman Kyrylovych, who made the franchise for Rozetka, Smartass and many other cool projects,” Kenigshtein wrote on his Facebook page.
According to him, the franchise is focused on the regions of Ukraine and beyond, except for Kyiv and Dnipro – cities where Creative States operates. At the same time, the company reserves the right to refuse cooperation if the selected location is not suitable for the network model.
Creative States plans to engage in location selection, design, construction and launch of a turnkey partner facility. In addition, the company will help partners attract tenants, including network clients.
“Our common goal with the franchisee is to ensure that the location comes out in aggregate not less than 28-30% of EBITDA in the annual range. More is better. This is good money, especially in the context of the commercial real estate segment,” added Kenigshtein.
He did not name the amount required to enter the project, specifying that it would not be the lowest, but promised to announce the conditions in the near future.
As reported, the Creative States of Arsenal co-working space in Kyiv was opened in May 2020. The object is located in the territory of the Arsenal plant at 8 Moskovska Street in Kyiv. Its total area is 4,100 square meters. The space is designed for 700 residents, includes 130 offices and 60 co-working seats.
The Creative States network also includes locations in the capital’s Senator and Gulliver business centers. It is also planned to open a co-working space in Dnipro, as well as to enter the European market.
