KYIV, Aug 10 - The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food and grain traders have signed a memorandum to fix forecast volume of wheat exports in the 2018/2019 marketing year (MY, July-June) at 16 million tons against 16.5 million tons in the previous MY.

KYIV, Aug 9 - The online supermarket Rozetka and the EVO group of companies plan to merge, Vladyslav Chechotkin, the founder and co-owner of Rosetka.UA, said on his Facebook page.

KYIV, Aug 9 - JYSK Ukraine LLC (Kyiv), which develops the network of JYSK furniture and household goods stores of the JYSK Group (Denmark), plans to open about 12 stores in Ukraine every year.

KYIV, Aug 9 – Norwegian-based NBT in April 2018 bought Syvashenergoprom (Kherson region, operates a wind farm with a capacity of about 3 MW) and intends to build a wind power plant with an installed capacity of 250-330 MW in the adjacent territories, the company's website said.

KYIV, Aug 9 - Fintest Trading Co Limited (Cyprus), which owned 100% of the shares of Donetskstal Iron and Steel Works (Donetsk, the occupied zone), sold 24.989999% of its shares to the following four companies each - Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands), Altana Ltd, Misandyco Holdings Ltd (both based in Cyprus) and Treimur Investments Ltd. (the Virgin Islands), as well as to an unnamed company, and withdrew from the company's shareholders.

KYIV, Aug 9 – The insurance companies of Ukraine in January-June 2018 collected gross premiums in the amount of UAH 23.5 billion, which is 10.7% more than in the first six months of 2017.

KYIV, Aug 9 - Kness Group intends by the end of 2019 to build a solar panel factory with an annual capacity of 400 MW in Vinnytsia, the press service of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine has said.

KYIV, Aug 9 - President Petro Poroshenko said he is confident Ukraine will begin mass production of large-caliber artillery ammunition in the near future.

KYIV, Aug 11 - Industrial and Investment Company of Ukraine LLC (Mariupol) intends to buy a state stake in Joint Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian Enterprise for Nuclear Fuel Production, UkrTVS.

KYIV, Aug 11 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in August improved its forecast for grain harvest in Ukraine in 2017 by 3.9 million tons compared to the July forecast, to 64.99 million metric tons.