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UKRAINE’S ENTERPRISES POST UAH 75.6 BLN PRETAX PROFIT IN 2016 – STATISTICS

18 April , 2017  

KYIV. April 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian enterprises received pretax profit in the amount of UAH 75.6 billion in 2016, while in 2015 their loss was UAH 236.6 billion, the State Statistics Service has said.
According to the service, last year 73.5% of Ukrainian enterprises worked profitably and received UAH 328.9 billion of profit, which is 12.6% more than in 2015.
At the same time, 26.5% of enterprises were unprofitable. Their losses in 2016 halved compared to 2015, to UAH 253.3 billion.