October 29, 2025, Kyiv, International Exhibition Center (IEC)
Where is the profit during a crisis? How to scale up agricultural processing, attract investment, implement AI, and overcome the shortage of personnel in the food industry?
Experts, entrepreneurs, and leaders of the Ukrainian food sector will provide answers to these questions during the Agro2Food Profit Forum 2025 — the main event of the year for food producers and processors.
The forum will take place on October 29, 2025, in Kyiv, at the International Exhibition Center, as part of the Agro2Food exhibition of technologies, equipment, and solutions for agro-processing and the food industry.
5 panels. 1 day. Maximum practical benefit.
Panel #1. THE ECONOMICS OF ADDED VALUE IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY. Where is the profit in a crisis?
In partnership with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
With the participation of representatives of industry associations, clusters, distributors, and owners of processing businesses, who will share real-life cases of development, scaling, and optimization of production.
Key message: To show how Ukrainian producers are finding new sources of profit even in times of turbulence.
Panel No. 2. THE ECONOMICS OF INVESTMENT AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
In partnership with the Reform Support Team (RST) of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and ProConsalting. With the participation of a representative of Oschadbank (on agribusiness support programs), the owner of an agricultural processing company (with a scaling case study), and a supplier of processing equipment (on technological innovations).
Key message: How to attract investment during wartime, develop exports, and implement sustainability strategies?
Key topics:
Panel No. 3. ECONOMY OF INNOVATION. “Digitalization. AI. Food processing”
In partnership with the Ukrainian Food Manufacturers Association U-Food and the Ukrainian Cluster Alliance.
Key message: Artificial intelligence is already changing the Ukrainian food industry.
Key topics:
Panel No. 4. HUMAN RESOURCE ECONOMICS. Labor shortage in the food industry: challenges and solutions.
In partnership with the Job Platform for Food Technologists and Manufacturers and Odessa National Technological University.
With the participation of American University Kyiv.
Key topics:
Panel No. 5. THE ECONOMICS OF UNIQUENESS
Main message: Innovative products, intellectual property, and craftsmanship as a profit strategy.
Key topics:
Agro2Food Profit Forum 2025 is:
Agro2Food statistics.
At the exhibition venue, which will reach 4,000 m2, over 120 exhibitors will present all the key achievements in agricultural processing and the food industry.
Organizer:
Premier Expo:
Where and when:
October 29, 2025
International Exhibition Center (IEC), Kyiv
More about the program: https://agro2food.com.ua/program/profit-forum
Media contact:
Olena Zhoga, Conference Manager, Premier Expo
+380 (67) 789 27 09
Agro2Food — Building an economy of added value together.
See you at the main event of the sincere Ukrainian autumn!
Tickets for the exhibition: https://agro2food.com.ua/visitors/registration
Interfax-Ukraine — information partner
Source: https://interfax.com.ua/news/press-release/1112280.html
Private JSC Novoselivskyi Mining and Processing Plant (NGZK, Kharkiv region) increased its net profit by 6.1% in 2024 compared to 2023 — reaching UAH 18.938 million.
According to the company’s annual report filed with the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, net revenue rose by 11.6% to UAH 168.553 million.
Retained earnings at the end of 2024 stood at UAH 86.672 million.
Founded in 2000, the plant specializes in sand, gravel, and clay extraction.
As of Q1 2025, Silica Holding LLC (Ukraine) owns 94.8205% of the company’s shares.
Authorized capital amounts to UAH 21.25 million.
The international vertically integrated pipe and wheel company Interpipe reduced its net profit by 16.6% year-on-year in January–June 2025, to $107.357 million from $128.740 million.
According to the company’s interim report, profit before tax decreased by 12.1% to $142.643 million, while operating profit dropped by 17.6% to $142.227 million. Revenue grew by 6.8% to $572.267 million.
At the end of June 2025, cash and equivalents totaled $263.166 million (compared to $292.093 million a year earlier).
Revenue from the pipe segment amounted to $436.844 million ($388.949 million in H1 2024), from the railway product segment – $122.252 million ($127.159 million), and from the steel segment – $170.643 million ($180.498 million).
Operating profit in these segments reached $78.289 million, $17.750 million, and $46.359 million respectively.
EBITDA for the pipe segment totaled $85.101 million ($50.856 million), railway products – $25.741 million ($25.347 million), steel – $54.884 million ($54.259 million), with total company EBITDA at $165.557 million ($130.273 million).
In 2024, Interpipe increased its net profit by 10.9% to $280.479 million and profit before tax by 12.2% to $327.191 million. Operating profit fell by 6% to $337.047 million, while revenue rose by 6.2% to $1.05 billion.
Cash at year-end 2024 amounted to $285.504 million (vs. $247.473 million in 2023).
Interpipe is a Ukrainian industrial company producing steel pipes and railway products. Its goods are supplied to over 50 countries. In 2024, the company paid UAH 5.5 billion in taxes.
Its structure includes five industrial facilities: Interpipe NTRP, NMTZ, Niko-Tube, Dnipromet, and the DniproSteel electric steelmaking complex.
The company employs about 9,500 people.
The ultimate owner of Interpipe Limited is Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Viktor Pinchuk and his family.
Silpo Food LLC, part of the Fozzy Group (Kyiv) trade and industrial group, which operates the Silpo grocery supermarket chain in Ukraine, earned UAH 612.7 million in profit in January-June 2025, while last year, during the same period, the company incurred a loss of UAH 863.5 million.
According to the company’s interim report, published in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), Silpo Food’s revenue from sales in the first half of 2025 increased by 15.5% compared to the first half of 2024 and reached UAH 50.3 billion.
It is noted that the company’s gross profit in January-June 2025 increased by 27.3% compared to the same period a year ago, to UAH 15.8 billion, and operating profit increased 2.1 times, to UAH 1.4 billion.
Silpo Food’s current liabilities since the beginning of the year as of June decreased by 6% to UAH 27.8 billion, while long-term liabilities increased by 4% to UAH 13.5 billion.
The company’s uncovered loss at the end of June 2025 decreased by 2.2% since the beginning of the year and amounted to UAH 24.9 billion, while assets increased by 1.3% to UAH 34.5 billion.
As reported, Silpo Food’s revenue for 2024 increased by 9.8% compared to the previous year, to UAH 93 billion.
Silpo Food LLC was established in early August 2016. According to Opendatabot, the founder of the LLC is PJSC Closed Undiversified Venture Corporate Investment Fund Retail Capital (100%, Kyiv), and the ultimate beneficiary is Volodymyr Kostelman.
As of September 2025, the chain has 310 supermarkets in 62 cities of Ukraine and four Le Silpo delicatessen markets: in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Odesa.
It is part of the Fozzy Group, a trade and industrial group with more than 826 retail outlets throughout the country. The company develops retail chains of various formats: Silpo supermarkets, Fozzy wholesale hypermarkets, Fora neighborhood stores, Thrash! discount stores, Bila Romashka pharmaceutical supermarkets, and E-ZOO pet stores.
Metal Holding Trade LLC, one of Ukraine’s metal trading companies, increased its net profit by 5.1 times compared to 2023, to UAH 181.639 million, according to the results of 2024.
According to the company’s annual report in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), during this period, it increased its net income by 20% to UAH 7 billion 235.562 million.
Retained earnings at the end of 2024 amounted to UAH 1 billion 714.379 million.
Metal Holding Trade LLC (Kyiv) is engaged in the wholesale trade of metals and the production of metal structures.
The founders and participants of the LLC are three individuals: Serhiy Loychenko, who owns a 75% stake, Oleg Melnyk (12.5%), and Volodymyr Poberizhnyuk (12.5%).
The authorized capital of the LLC is UAH 4.020 million.
JSC “Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Building Plant” (KZVV, Perechin, Zakarpattia region), almost 97.7% of whose shares are owned by former MP Maksym Yefimov (Restoration of Ukraine group), earned almost UAH 1.233 billion in net profit in January-June of this year, four times more than in the first half of 2024.
According to the company’s published financial report, net income for this period increased 3.5 times to UAH 21.446 billion.
According to the company, in the first quarter of this year, it increased its net profit by 2.6 times compared to January-March 2024, to UAH 707.9 million, with net income growing 4.2 times, to UAH 10.796 billion.
Thus, in the second quarter of this year, KZV increased its net profit by 4.8 times compared to April-June 2024, to UAH 524.8 million, with revenue growing almost threefold, to UAH 10 billion 653 million.
As reported, KZVV, which was relocated from Kramatorsk to Perechin in the summer of 2022, manufactures, among other things, wind turbines (WTGs) for Friendly Wind Technology.
KZVV specializes in universal special-purpose machine tools designed for the energy, metallurgical, oil and gas industries, mechanical engineering, and rail transport, as well as machine tools for single and small-batch production. The plant has also mastered the production of towers for WPPs.
Back in 2022, KZVV’s net income was UAH 119.38 million, and its net loss was UAH 134.68 million.
At the beginning of this year, the plant employed almost 2,000 workers, compared to 296 in 2022.
