Agribusiness in Ukraine

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank was back in 1993 the first fully operational Western bank in Ukraine under Credit Lyonnais brand and since 2004 under Calyon brand.
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is considered as the main reference for international banking in Ukraine thanks to its long-lasting experience on the Ukrainian market and first-class services to its clients.
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is devoted to servicing international corporations and leaders in their field Ukrainian-owned groups.
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank belongs to Credit Agricole Group. Credit Agricole is retail bank leader in France and in Europe. Credit Agricole is a first-class partner for the economies in which it operates. More than 160 000 employees work to satisfy the banking requirements of 49 million customers in 70 countries.
 
www.ca-cib.com.ua

Founded in 1991 Warsaw Stock Exchange since then has developed into the CEE regional leader. According to the last analytical surveys at the present moment WSE is the largest of Central and Eastern European exchange operators in terms of  equity trading and market capitalization. On the other hand WSE is one of the most resilient IPO markets within that part of Europe.
The company offers trading in various securities including shares, municipal, corporate, and government bonds as well as wide range of derivative products.
Warsaw Stock Exchange recommended itself as an optimal place for raising capital not only for the local companies but for the business from the neighboring countries as well, such as e.g. Ukrainian agricultural holdings Astarta and Kernel and Czech companies operating in renewable energy sector – CEZ Group, Photon Energy and BGS Energy Plus.
www.ipowse.com.ua

Dragon Capital (www.dragon-capital.com) is Ukraine's leading investment bank offering a comprehensive range of services in equities and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity and asset management to institutional, corporate and private clients. Established in 2000, the company is an independent partnership controlled by management, with a minority stake held by Goldman Sachs. Dragon Capital accounts for the largest share of turnover on the Ukrainian stock market carrying out approximately a third of reported transactions. The bank has completed more than 50 deals, including IPOs, private placements and M&A transactions, since 2005, raising about $2.0 bn. Dragon’s asset management arm has approximately $0.6 bn under management. Financial magazine Euromoney named Dragon Capital the Best Equity House in Ukraine in 2002 and 2004-2008. Thomson Reuters Extel and Institutional Investor surveys have recognized Dragon Capital analysts as a leading Ukrainian equity research team in 2007-2009. Financial publication EMEAFinance named Dragon Capital the Best Broker in Ukraine in 2010.

Baker & McKenzie provides sophisticated legal advice to the world’s most dynamic global enterprises, and has done so for 60 years.
The first foreign law firm to open an office in Ukraine, we currently assist over 550 multinational companies, financial institutions and major Ukrainian enterprises in their domestic and international operations. Now have one of the largest legal practices in Ukraine, offering expertise (in close cooperation with our offices worldwide) on all aspects of business activities in the region including corporate law, banking and finance, securities and capital markets, venture capital, competition law, tax and customs, real estate and construction, labor and employment, intellectual property, and dispute resolution.
www.bakermckenzie.com

Kyiv office of DLA Piper is part of an international legal practice DLA Piper, with over 3,500 lawyers across 69 offices and 30 countries across Europe, Asia, the US and Middle East. More than 30 lawyers in Ukraine provide full legal support to clients within the following practice groups: Corporate & Tax, Finance & Projects, Regulatory, Real Estate & Land, Intellectual Property & Technology, Litigation & Arbitration. Please find out more at www.dlapiper.com

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax and legal, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 141,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve potential.

In 1991 Ernst & Young was the first among international professional services firms to establish its practice in Ukraine. Ernst & Young in Ukraine (Kyiv and Donetsk offices) now employs more than 500 professionals providing high-quality services to a number of multinational corporations and Ukrainian enterprises. Further information about Ernst & Young can be found at www.ey.com/ua.

B. C. Toms & Co, a multinational law firm of Western and Ukrainian lawyers, was the first Western law firm to open a Kyiv office in September 1991. Our foreign and Ukrainian lawyers have excellent qualifications from leading Ukrainian and Western law schools and many years of practice experience. Commitment to quality is the cornerstone of our practice. Our over 20 years of experience in Ukraine give us a significant advantage in understanding the many hidden problems and loopholes that need to be addressed to eliminate risks in oil and gas transactions.
In particular, we have extensive experience resolving the many problems that can undermine licenses (special permits) for oil and gas exploration and development as well as title to land plots, oil and gas wells and pipelines. We have represented major multinational oil and gas companies and independents for substantial oil and gas exploration, development and production projects, joint venture (activity) agreements with state and private entities, oil and gas and LPG trading, oil and gas license agreements and the other necessary related approvals as well as advising major multinational oil and gas and mining com¬panies on their projects in Ukraine, including large corpo¬rate acquisitions. We have also successful handled many of the largest arbitrations and lawsuits in Ukraine.

«The Group of companies  DK-Ukraine. Auditors and Consultants» was established in 2001. Today it keeps leading position  among groups and companies  at the Ukrainian  market of audit and consulting.
Vast experience in the field, complex approach to clients servicing, the full range of professional services provided by the Group, enables it  to realize its potential fully and  efficiently,  and  solve the most complex tasks. For this purpose more than hundred professionals in various fields work at the company.
Offices of the company are located in Lviv and Kyiv, however, the geography of its activities  is much more expanded. Participation of the company  in the international  association  of independent auditors, business experts and consultants «Nexia International» allows us to offer our clients  services in world financial centers.

GEOSYS helps agribusinesses and agricultural professionals make better decisions using the latest research in agronomic, information and geographic technologies.
Over 20 years in business, GEOSYS has customers portfolio in more than 50 countries and offers  a unique service-driven approach to delivering expertise in agronomics, remote sensing and information technology
From worldwide crop condition monitoring to meter-by-meter potential mapping , our broad range of web-accessible, ready-to-use services offer better information for better profitability:
AgriQuest™ our worldwide crop condition monitoring service delivers season-long crop status reports and rich analytics, using 10 years of daily satellite imagery and 30 years of continuously updated weather data.
FarmSat™ our all-in-one precision agriculture solution improves agronomic decisions by delivering: field mapping, record keeping, advanced methods of defining field variability (saMZ™- co-developed with NAsA/UsDA), soil sampling optimization and variable rate management.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (Chamber) is among the most active and effective non-government, non-profit business organizations operating in Ukraine since 1992. One of the Chamber’s principal activities is to represent the foreign investment community as well as to facilitate the entrance of potential new investors into this market. The Chamber advocates on behalf of the Membership not only to the Ukrainian government, but also to all other governments, which are economic partners of Ukraine, on matters of trade, commerce, and economic reform. The Member organizations of the Chamber represent capital from over 50 nations across the globe including Europe, North America, Asia, Russia and Ukraine. Our Members are the largest strategic and institutional investors operating in Ukraine who have committed a majority of the foreign direct investment into this market and directly employ close to a million Ukrainians providing them with exposure to international best practices and the opportunity to develop into leading managers. Our Member companies bring international expertise and business knowledge to the marketplace and are among the largest taxpayers in Ukraine and strive to be good corporate citizens.

The Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation all-Ukrainian community association is an all-Ukrainian community organization established in order to protect interests of its members and carry out its statutory activities

Saksaganskogo str., 53/80, office 807,
Kyiv, 01033, Ukraine
380 44 284 3238, 287 6566, 289 9721
agroconf@agroconf.org
www.agroconf.org

Ukrainian Oil Association

Ukrsugar, Association

Website: www.usubc.org

«Expert Ukraine» Magazine - it is high-quality and up to date analytical information, necessary for the successful business.
The «Expert Ukraine» magazine is being presented in Ukraine since the 2004.

The information group «Expert Ukraine» carries out it’s activity simultaneously in several directions:

• Publishing: «Expert Ukraine» magazine
• Rating agency
• National committee IPO 

Website: www.expert.ua

«First Business» сhannel
04119, Kyiv, Yakira street, 13-B
tel: (044) 207-47-17 (16)
“First Business l Channel” broadcasting is supported by more than 350 cable operators all over Ukraine, potential audience is over 11 million. Broadcasting is also performed in East European countries, Baltic countries and North America. “First Business Channel” provides its viewers with the possibility to get actual economic news, the freshest information about  development of different industries 24 hours a day. There are 30 own projects, that come on air such as: news projects (“Business”, “Astrum daily”, “Information results ”); projects, that are dedicated to certain theme (“Auto-life”, Fashionline”, “IТ for your business”); industrial projects: (“Transport”, “Property. Interior. Design”, “Force field”); specialized projects: (“Finance”, “Companies and markets”, “Business Horizons”, “Mergers and Acquisitions”).
Watch “First Business channel” on-line:  http://www.fbc.net.ua

Over the past 17 years BUSINESS has become the newspaper of choice for the Ukrainian businessman. Over this period, BUSINESS has not only moved with the march of history, but has helped to make history. Today, BUSINESS magazine represents an info-analytical supermarket. It means that reader can find useful only for him information: Ukrainian business news, most recent information from legislative and executive authorities, marketing and management innovations and events, culture and auto news, popular individuals. All supermarket`s “goods” are dedicated for giving the most useful and topical political and economic information for daily business processes.  BUSINESS has helped the new, emerging middle class of Ukraine, the creators of the country, to establish themselves and to find their feet.
Website: www.business.ua

ESG Communication group is  a leader in business-content production
ESG Communication group means:
18 TV programs which are broadcasted by 7 national TV companies
Communication services:
   - Development of PR strategies and implementation of PR programs
   - Creating positive images for companies, goods and brands.
   - Gaining and retaining the trust of investors, managing corporate reputation.
   - Cooperation with state institutions and public organizations.
   - crisis prevention and response PR
   - image-making for public persons
   - management of social projects
   - mass-media cooperation
Production of business content:
   - corporate video
   - presentation video
   - advertising materials (TV spots)
   - slide-shows and video catalogues
   - educational films
   - technological films, video instructions
   - video reports  
“Ukrainian business resource”  www.ubr.ua
www.esg.ua

FASTER THEN TELEVISION
MORE CONVENIENT THEN RADIO
MORE INTERESTING THEN THE PRESS
Operational and accessible resource of accurate information about business and economics: video from the scene, direct speech of Ukrainian business leaders, actual video-comments of the experts.
Ukrainian Business Resouce contains: - это:
• www.ubr.ua Internet portal on your computer;
• TV channel UBR on the AMOS satellite;
• PDA-version in your mobile;
• Radio news on FM.

The Interfax-Ukraine News Agency, which belongs to the Interfax Information Service International Information Group, has been working on the Ukrainian market for political and economic information since 1992. Over the period, the agency has won a reputation for being the most reliable and qualified supplier of up-to-the-minute and objective information.
Among the agency's clients are the leading mass media, the biggest corporations, investment funds, banking and financial institutions, state organizations and structures.
News from Ukraine wired through the Interfax Agency's network reaches clients around the world. Currently, the agency offers over 40 economic, financial and political information products in three languages – Ukrainian, Russian, and English.
The agency constantly expands and updates its services by offering clients new products on various branches of industry and innovatively polishing its existing information services.
What is more, you can gain free-of-charge 10-day trial access to any chosen service by applying to Maksim Urakin at urakin@interfax.kiev.ua, or through www.interfax.com.ua, or by just telephoning (+38 044) 270 6574/75.

Ukrainian Business Weekly – Newspaper «AGROPROFI»

Regularly published in September 2007. «AGROPROFI» - a newspaper about the real practice of modern technology in Agriculture and control for maximum efficiency. Operational and business information to professionals APC, which decide: executives and managers, owners and investors.

Highlights:
• examples of successful practices;
• proven facts and forecasts;
• different points of view;
• laconic language of business.

Business Ukraine is a monthly English-language current affairs magazine published in Kyiv by Open Borders Media. It is widely read throughout Ukraine's business, governmental and diplomatic communities and aims to provide independent analysis of Ukraine's politics and economy.

bne is the first business publication dedicated to covering finance, economics, politics and business in the dynamic markets of Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe. Our team of veteran journalists collectively have more than 50 years of reporting on the 17 countries of New Europe. bne goes beyond the headlines to provide in-depth reporting and incisive commentary that explains the "why" behind the "what" of current events. Sign up for a free month’s trial — just go to http://www.businessneweurope.eu click on a story and register.

TT-TOTAL is an online, in-depth multiple source intelligence and information platform in both English and Russian, covering 30 countries from Central Europe to Central Asia, and 44 sectors from aerospace and defence to metals and mining. With detailed coverage of news on over 700 companies and nearly 400 business and political figures in the region, TT-TOTAL offers unrivalled speed and flexibility to its subscribers. The service is provided by Templeton Thorp, the definitive independent market specialist for all forms of intelligence, business and political information, and due diligence in the former Soviet Union and Central, Southern and Eastern Europe.

Website: www.tt-total.com

“Propozitsiya” is Ukrainian monthly magazine on the agro business.
Format - 215х297 мм
Circulation – 17 150
Print – full-color (4+4)
Periodicity – 12 times per year
Language – Ukrainian
Date of foundation – 1994
Subscription index – 74348
Target audience - managers of enterprises, agrarian businessmen, farmers, scientist and students.
 “Propozitsiya” – is new ideas, useful advices and specialists’ consultations.

EUROMONITOR INTERNATIONAL

Euromonitor International is the world's leading provider of strategic market research on industries, countries and consumers.  With its head office in London, offices in Chicago, Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai, Cape Town, Santjago and Vilnius, Euromonitor International has more than 35 years experience of producing market reports, which are published in a variety of formats, from our award-winning online databases, bespoke tailor–made  research projects to market reports and statistical reference books.
We cover 205 countries across the globe with extended country, consumer and industry analysis for 80 national markets. With over 700 analysts and consultants worldwide, Euromonitor International has an unrivalled research network specialising in global consumer markets and service industries. The Company's in-house Consulting division also undertakes customised research projects on all sectors, including industrial, business to business and high-tech industries.

Magazine AGROEXPERT
AGROEXPERT – is a monthly theoretical and practical issue, in which the experience of agrarians of Ukraine and Europe was combined  for the first of time.
In the magazine's pages the scientists and practicians give advices in different branches of agricultural industry.
Regular items are: crop production, machinery,swine rearing, cattle, legal aspects, ecology, experience abroad, market review. It is nice to read in one's spare time such items as: Home. Family. Health.
The readers of the edition are managers of agricultural enterprises, zootechnics, agronomists, engineers, farmers, students, lecturers of agriculture universities.

Address: 02660, Kiev, Ukraine
Of. 300,11-A, M.Raskovoii
Phone: 8 (044) 362-02-94, 362-65-69
Fax: 8 (044) 583-06-59.
E-mail: info@agroexpert.kiev.ua
Web-site: http://www.agroexpert.kiev.ua

The magazine “Animal Industry Today” focuses on   the latest research and information about breeding stock, nutrition, safety food and feed, about health, environment, utilisation, management, equipment, about new products and services for Animal Industry professionals. We provide our readers with such essential  and useful information and ideas that they can use to make their business more efficient.   
Editor-in-Chief: Gulnara Ibrayeva, mob: +380503581719

The first weekly business magazine for top-managers of the companies with the most competitive business decisions, offers the experience advanced national and world companies.
Stay  positive [solvetion of the problems and how to find a way out of the difficulties situations].
It is intended for innovative and progressive CEO of the Ukrainian and international companies. For those who accepts key decisions of business.
www.companion.ua

Founded in Oct 2000, Company Agrarika Ltd (Trademark AGRO PERSPECTIVA) has presently developed to a leader in agrarian market consulting. Nine years functioning resulted in forming of a range of over 500 regular clients including biggest processors, food companies, domestic and foreign traders, banks, consulting companies and big foreign companies.

SeeNews (www.seenews.com) is a business and financial news provider covering the fast-growing companies and economies of Southeast Europe. SeeNews delivers decision-relevant business and investment news and intelligence for the investment banking, financial professionals, corporate executives and investors in emerging markets.

SeeNews combines the premium products real-time news and analysis by SeeNews –The Corporate Wire (http://www.wire.seenews.com) and investment research, database of company and industry reports by SeeNews – Research and Profiles (www.seenews.com/profiles).

For more information or to arrange a free trial, please e-mail SeeNews office at consulting@seenews.com or visit our website at www.seenews.com

ADPnews (http://www.adpnews.info/) is a global news newswire, carrying business and financial news and information from more than 70 countries worldwide. ADPnews provides high-quality, reliable and comprehensive coverage of business and industry news from around the world from established markets to emerging markets. ADPnews delivers dedicated services tailored for renewable energy  and shipping and logistics induatries ADPnews Renewables and ADPnews Shipping.

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