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McDonald’s to develop partnership with gas stations in Ukraine

FDI McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd, which is developing the McDonald’s fast food chain in Ukraine, plans to develop partnership programs with gas station chains, Vitaliy Stefurak, McDonald’s Ukraine Development Director, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

As reported, in the summer of 2023, McDonald’s opened its first restaurant near the highway, near Zhytomyr, on the M-06 Kyiv-Chop highway, and the restaurant is located next to a WOG gas station.

“This is an example of a partnership project, the essence of which is that at a certain point on the highway, all the necessary range of services needed by motorists and travelers is formed. The same goes for the opportunity to eat. This is not competition, but a complement to each other and a choice for visitors. This year, we plan to implement such projects in regional centers, cities with a population of over a million or their satellites. For the next few years, we continue to consider locations to open McDonald’s restaurants in conjunction with gas stations on key highways,” said Stefurak.

At the same time, he emphasized that none of the key players or gas station chains has an exclusive right to work with McDonald’s.

“We focus exclusively on the location and weigh how well it meets our requirements. Of course, first of all, we work with key players. This is WOG, which you mentioned, and we are already cooperating with KLO. And now we are building our restaurant next to the OKKO filling station in Odesa, but this restaurant will be located in the city, not on the highway,” said Stefurak.

Such projects are not experimental, but part of a well-developed strategy that determines where it would be appropriate to build a new McDonald’s.

“We are open to cooperation with various partners, because the location has always been and remains the key for us,” said the chain’s development director.

The first McDonald’s restaurant in Ukraine was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.

As reported, on September 20, 2022, McDonald’s began a phased opening of restaurants in Ukraine. By February 24 of the same year, the chain had 109 restaurants in 24 cities across the country. As of spring 2024, there are 101 restaurants in operation.

At the end of 2023, it increased its revenue by 3.9 times compared to the previous year, up to UAH 12.9 billion, according to Opendatabot.

According to the financial results for 2023, the company’s net profit amounted to UAH 1.29 billion, compared to a loss of UAH 2 billion in 2022.

The value of McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd’s assets amounted to UAH 5.54 billion, while the amount of liabilities increased 2.3 times to UAH 829.7 million.

The number of employees in 2023 increased by 7% to 9,614.

McDonald’s in Ukraine is a founding partner and the largest corporate partner of the Ronald McDonald House Foundation in Ukraine.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant of FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).

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McDonald’s to open 6 more restaurants in Ukraine this year

FDI McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd, which is developing the McDonald’s fast food chain in Ukraine, plans to open six new restaurants in 2024, Yulia Badritdinova, CEO of McDonald’s Ukraine, Czech Republic and Slovakia, said at a press briefing on Tuesday.

“In 2023, we expanded our network to 101 restaurants, 10 of which are new restaurants. We have opened a new format – on the highway (near Zhytomyr and in Oleksandriya). These establishments are not just on the highway, they are tied to the city where we can hire staff and whose residents are also our customers. We plan to open at least six restaurants in 2024,” she said.

Badritdinova also said that one of the chain’s goals for this year is to achieve representation in each of the regions.

“There are two regions where we are not yet represented – Zaporizhzhia and Chernivtsi, and I hope we will open restaurants this year,” she said.

The first McDonald’s restaurant in Ukraine was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.

As reported, on September 20, 2022, McDonald’s began a phased opening of restaurants in Ukraine. By February 24 of the same year, the chain had 109 restaurants in 24 cities across the country. As of March 2024, there are 101 restaurants in operation.

At the end of 2023, it increased its revenue by 3.9 times compared to the previous year, to UAH 12.9 billion, according to Opendatabot.

According to the financial results for 2023, the company’s net profit amounted to UAH 1.29 billion, compared to a loss of UAH 2 billion in 2022.

The value of McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd’s assets amounted to UAH 5.54 billion, while the amount of liabilities increased 2.3 times to UAH 829.7 million.

The number of employees in 2023 increased by 7% to 9,614.

McDonald’s in Ukraine is a founding partner and the largest corporate partner of the Ronald McDonald House Foundation in Ukraine.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant in FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).

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New McDonald’s opened in Vyshgorod

On September 20, McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Vyshgorod, Kyiv region, the company’s press service said.

This restaurant at 7-L Naberezhna Street is reportedly the seventh opening this year. The project was approved in the chain’s development plan before the full-scale invasion and the company continued construction as soon as it became possible.

The one-story McDonald’s has a hall with 131 seats and a terrace with 88 more. The restaurant, along with McDrive, will be open from 07:00 to 22:00, with delivery service from 09:00 to 21:00. The restaurant adheres to the company’s enhanced security rules, namely: establishments close during an air raid and reopen approximately one hour after the alarm is canceled.

To take care of the environment, the restaurant has installed a recuperation system that eliminates the need for gas supply and heating.

The chain is developed by McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. The first restaurant was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.

As reported, on September 20, 2022, McDonald’s began a phased opening of restaurants in Ukraine. By February 24, 2022, McDonald’s in Ukraine had 109 restaurants in 24 cities of the country.

As of September 20, the company’s network in Ukraine has more than 90 restaurants.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant in FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).

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McDonald’s partially reopens restaurants in Ukraine

The McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain is introducing a phased plan to reopen some restaurants in Kyiv and western Ukraine over the next few months, the chain’s press service reported.
“After lengthy consultations and discussions with Ukrainian officials, suppliers and security professionals, and in response to the request of our employees to return to work, we have decided to introduce a phased plan to reopen some restaurants in Kyiv and western Ukraine, where other businesses have safely resumed work,” Paul Pomeroy, Senior Vice President of McDonald’s International Markets Business Unit, is quoted in the message.
Over the next few months, the company’s team with partners will be working to restore food supply chains, prepare restaurants to serve customers, return the team and employees to the working environment, and implement enhanced procedures and protocols to ensure the safety of workers and customers, he said.
Pomroy pointed out that the Ukrainian market team headed by Yulia Badritdinova is working on the restoration tasks.
In Ukraine, the first McDonald’s restaurant was opened in Kyiv on May 24, 1997. Over 25 years, the company has invested about $350 million, transferred UAH 10 billion in taxes to the state budget, and donated UAH 124 million to charity.
To date, the network has 109 restaurants in 24 cities across the country.
Earlier it was reported that the restaurants of the network in Ukraine were closed on February 24 for security reasons. The company maintains a team of more than 10 thousand people, while continuing to pay wages. In addition, more than 700 tons of products were donated for humanitarian needs. Together with the Ronald McDonald House Foundation, McDonald’s initiated and implemented humanitarian aid programs to support Ukrainians. Ukrainian families have already received more than 75 thousand food packages, 26 hospitals have received assistance with equipment and medicines.
The network is being developed by FDI “McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd.”
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK) is a FDI participant.

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MCDONALD’S OPENS IN RESPUBLIKA PARK AND NEW WAY TRADE CENTERS

McDonald’s restaurants in the Respublika Park shopping center and the New Way shopping center opened on December 30, the company’s press service reported.
The restaurant in the Respublika Park shopping and entertainment center (1 Kiltseva Street) is designed for 154 guests, plus another 120 seats on the terrace. For the convenience of couriers, a separate window is provided for issuing orders. There are also two MacDrive lines in Respublika Park.
The McDonald’s restaurant in the New Way shopping center (1 Architect Verbytsky Street) has a spacious hall for 134 guests and a space for 92 guests on the terrace. MacDrive has two windows for faster service, and the two-storey restaurant itself has an elevator for table service and ten self-service terminals.
The first McDonald’s restaurant in Ukraine was opened in Kyiv on May 24, 1997. Currently, the McDonald’s chain in Ukraine has 109 restaurants in 24 cities.
The network is being developed by McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. According to the data of the unified state register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, the UK) is a company participant. The charter capital of McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. for December 2021 is UAH 901.801 million.
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MCDONALD’S OPENS FIRST RESTAURANT IN IVANO-FRANKIVSK

Enterprise with foreign investments McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. (Kyiv), which develops the American fast food chain McDonald’s in Ukraine, opened a restaurant of the chain at 2, Ivan Mykolaichuk Street in Ivano-Frankovsk on April 17.
According to the press service of the company, the new McDonald’s is designed for 185 seats in the hall and 82 seats on the terrace. The restaurant is equipped with two McDrive lines, delivery areas and express orders. The hall includes 12 self-service terminals and sorting stations for separate waste collection.
In addition, in May, it is planned to launch a robot transporter for the quick delivery of finished orders from the kitchen to the express orders window.
The company said that in addition to this, the opening of new McDonald’s restaurants is planned in Bila Tserkva, Lutsk, Khmelnytsky, Kropyvnytsky and Mariupol.
“Also, in the next two years, the company aims to open the first establishments in Chernivtsi and Uzhgorod, and to increase its presence in cities with a population of one million, such as Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Lviv,” the company said.
The first McDonald’s in Ukraine was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.
The McDonald’s restaurant chain in Ukraine has 99 restaurants in 22 cities.
According to the data of the unified public register of legal entities and private entrepreneurs, MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, U.K.) is a participant in the limited liability company.

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