KYIV, Oct 10 – The level of consumer satisfaction with online purchases in Ukraine is lower than the global average, the press service of Google Ukraine has reported, based on the global research into customer experience across online retailers conducted by Kantar on behalf of Google.

KYIV, Oct 10 – Philip Morris Ukraine, British American Tobacco, JTI and Imperial Tobacco in Ukraine are mulling the possibility of decreasing production and later closing the tobacco factories on the territory of Ukraine over the adoption of the legislative requirement on the government regulation of markup on their goods by the Verkhovna Rada.

KYIV, Oct 10 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has promised to protect the interests of the country in the issue of challenging the nationalization of PrivatBank (Kyiv) in courts by its former shareholders, although he does not plan to directly interfere in the legal proceedings.

KYIV, Oct 9 – A syndicate of banks consisting of Raiffeisen Bank International AG, UniCredit Bank Austria AG and Raiffeisen Bank filed a claim to the business court of Kyiv seeking the recovery of the real estate and movable property of private enterprise Ros (a subsidiary of the Milkiland Group) mortgaged to the lenders in September 2012.

KYIV, Oct 10 - Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine LLC (Kyiv) plans to start opening the Beri-Vezi store with an area of 1,500-2,000 square meters from 2019. The stores will be small wholesale bases for traders, Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine CEO Olivier Langlet has said.

KYIV, Oct 10 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is mulling a project to provide a debt funding of EUR 51.9 million to Ukrgazvydobuvannia to finance the procurement of workover rigs and a package of energy efficiency investments.

KYIV, Oct 10 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has approved the new BankID regulations.

According to a posting on the website of the central bank, the document was approved by NBU resolution No. 105 dated October 3, 2018 amending some legal acts of the NBU. The resolution will take effect on November 5, 2018.

KYIV, Oct 10 – Head of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine Valeriy Patskan has said that in 2019, over 40% of the national budget will be used to pay debts, and the opportunities for social and economic expenses would narrow, the press service of the Accounting Chamber has reported.

KYIV, Oct 10 – Consumer prices in Ukraine after a decline by 0.7% in July and stability in August grew by 1.9% in September, and since early 2018 their growth was 5.6%, the State Statistics Service has reported.

KYIV, Oct 9 – Exports of Ukrainian agricultural products in January-August 2017 grew by 24.5% year-over-year, to $11.475 billion, the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has reported.