Optima School has received permission to conduct educational activities in Poland and will start teaching high school students (grades 10-11) at the beginning of the school year in September, Optima School director Olga Bilodid said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.
“The Polish school will be enrolling high school students. It will start at the beginning of the school year. We have already realized what we dreamed of last year, and we intend to move to other EU countries,” Bilodid said.
Optima School founder Roberts Weishla noted that Optima will share its experience with other countries, positioning itself not only as an international school with universal content, but also creating local content that meets local curricula.
According to him, Optima has the capacity to serve up to 500 thousand students at a time.
Optima School was established and licensed in 2015. The school currently has 20 thousand students.
Center Diia.Business in Warsaw has selected 20 Ukrainian companies, which will be helped to expand on the Polish market, in three main categories: food industry, light industry, wood and metal products, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday.
According to the center’s website, the food industry includes coffee producer Roast One, producer of Endorfine author’s jams, an agrocompany that grows raspberries and blueberries, as well as ornamental plants on a rented 40-hectare property, and another producer of organic berries and fruits Panfruit.
Other producers of snacks Brancho and Prime Snack LLC, as well as a Ukrainian producer of culinary spices UNA-Pak, a producer of products based on natural oils Waily and sweet company MFT were also included in the selection.
The light industry section includes six companies: brands of women’s clothing GNZ, Framiore, a Ukrainian manufacturer of business and casual men’s clothing Andreas Moskin, home textiles manufacturer Mir-Tex, pet accessories Noble Pet, clothing for children Tatoshka.
The sections of the catalog also include the companies Liswood – engaged in the production of wooden toys for children, manufacturer of water convectors for heating U-Con, bathroom furniture Mirater, products for health, beauty EcoBiz and company Econad, specializing in developing products aimed at protecting the environment.
It is reported that from “Dia.Biznes” companies will receive legal support, assistance with branding for participation in the online campaign, support in adapting to the Polish market. Also, companies will be provided assistance in solving issues related to relocation, business registration and legalization of stay in Poland.
The program is initiated by the Ministry of Finance, the Office of Enterprise and Export Development, the national project of entrepreneurship development in cooperation with Abt Britain, the Kyiv School of Economics and with the support of the British government.
The Diia.Business center in Warsaw was opened by the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, the Polish Investment and Trade Agency, and the Polish government commissioner for cybersecurity. The center is supported by Mastercard, UKaid and the British Embassy in Kyiv.
JSC Farmak pharmaceutical company (Kyiv) at the end of June 2019 received two new GMP (good manufacturing practice) certificates for two production sites and a new storage area commissioned at the beginning of the current year from the Polish regulatory authority, the press service of the company has said. According to the report, these sites have undergone planned recertification and confirmed their compliance with the EU’s GMP requirements.
The company passed state recertification conducted by the regulatory authorities of Ukraine and Poland in March of the current year. In particular, the company passed a GMP recertification by the State Service of Ukraine on Medicines and Drugs Control and a planned recertification of production sites, where products for the Polish market are manufactured, on the part of the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspectorate of Poland. According to the results of inspections, 19 production sites received national GMP certificates, and two more production and storage areas received European GMP certificates.
“This once again proves that the conditions in which Farmak products are manufactured comply with the European requirements. Today, all finished drug manufacturing facilities have national GMP certificates, 14 of them are certified by European regulatory authorities in Croatia and Poland. No one pharmaceutical company in Ukraine has such a level of European recognition,” Olha Oleksiychuk, the director for quality at Farmak, said.
The Bayadera Group, a large alcohol producing holding in the Ukrainian market, has brought wines under the Koblevo trademark to the Polish market. “Regular deliveries began on November 1. In Poland, 12 positions of wines under the Koblevo trademark will be available: six positions in retail chains and six more – in specialized wine shops,” the group’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
Bayadera Group, in particular, intends to work with a major Polish distributor of wines – Ambra. Bayadera Group was established in 1991. Its owners are Natalia Bondareva and Sviatoslav Nechytailo. The company owns such assets in the alcohol industry as distribution companies and alcohol production facilities in Ukraine and Belarus. It produces wine, vermouth and cognac and is the exclusive importer of international alcohol brands in Ukraine. The main trademarks are Persha Gildiya, Kozatska Rada, Hlibny Dar, Koblevo, Marengo, and others.
