1. Could you tell a bit about your career in Kyivmetalloprom?
(The questions were answered by Sergey Prilepko, the director of OJSC Kyivmetalloprom) In 2006 I was proposed a position of deputy director for capital construction at OJSC Kyivmetalloprom. At that very time the idea of construction of a logistic complex, able to be competitive on the market of logistic services and supply our region with deficient spaces occurred. That complex (10 thousand square meters) was constructed and it was leased in November 2007.  Later I was promoted to the director of OJSC Kyivmetalloprom.

Иностранные компании, осваивая российский рынок, используют современные системы управления товарными потоками и активно влияют на формирование соответствующей системы складской обработки товаров. Однако недостаточное предложение складских услуг со стороны 3PL-операторов и не удовлетворение торговых компаний спектром, полнотой предоставляемых им услуг вынуждает многие торговые компании развивать собственные складские системы. Так, активное развитие розничных торговых сетей инициировало создание ими собственных оптовых и распределительных центров.  

In 2015 50% of total freight car fleet will belong to private operators, private structures will also carry out 15% of passenger transportations. The deputy director general of "Ukrzaliznytsia" Anatoliy Lashko announced such prognoses at the press-conference.

According to the analysis report of the company Cushman&Wakefield, according to the results of 2007 till the end of 2007 about 500 thousand sq.m. of sale areas will be built in Moscow, DAH reports. To compare, there is about 300 thousand sq.m. of professional sale areas in Kiev today, while the similar index in Moscow is about 3 million sq.m.

Today less than a percent of world sales in sports retail fall on Ukraine, it is about $1 milliard. By the end of 2007 market will add 20%. After secular stagnation growth became possible owing to enhanced welfare of population

According to information of Market Report, the general volume of consumption of polypropylene in Ukraine according to the results of the first half of 2007 increased for 11%. Thus the volume of import grew even more – for 19%. As compared to the last year, there is renewal of increase dynamics at the level of 2001-2005 years, unlike 2006, when the estimated consumption of polypropylene (PP) at the Ukrainian market grew only for 4%

The analytical company IDC published an annual report about a PC market situation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE - Central and Eastern Europe), in obedience to which Ukraine ranks third on the total volume of regional deliveries (1,54 million devices, 9,7% of the total volume of CEE market), after Russia (7,36 millions, 46,2 and Poland (2,4 millions, 15,1%)

In June, 2007 export of carbamide from Ukraine reduced for 15,3% (52,710 thousand tons) to 290,708 thousand tons to compare with June last year, State committee for statistics reports. Thus this year in June returns from export increased for 6% ($4,445 million) to compare with June, 2006 to ($78,718 million). To compare with May, export of carbamide in June increased for 28,8% (65,058 thousand tons). In June India was the main importer of Ukrainian carbamide - 77,7% out of total volume

Today from the point of view of office spaces the most expensive regions of Ukraine are Odessa and Sevastopol in the south, Dnepropetrovsk, Vinnitsa and Zhitomir in the center, Kharkov in the east, Lvov and Ternopol in the west

The administration of capital LLC «Henkel Bautechnik (Ukraine)» declared about startup of wet plaster plant nearby Kiev. As informed Olga Stupina, a leader of a marketing department of LLC, the realization of this project began in autumn of the last year. The new enterprise, about 35 thousand tons of products per year, was built green field within the territory of operating plant of the company in Vyshgorod. The area of its warehouse and production rooms in which the foreign equipment on wet plasters, paints and floor oil production is set, made up 4,2 thousand square meters