KIEV, Sept. 7 - Stirol, a major Ukrainian chemicals company, plans to start producing five new types of high-impact polystyrene after revamping production facilities.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – The pace of growth of Ukraine's GDP has accelerated mainly thanks to a rise in agricultural output, according to Concorde Capital Investment Company analysts Andriy Parkhomenko, Polina Khomenko and Kostiantyn Fisun.

KIEV, Sept. 5 – Wizz Air Ukraine, the subsidiary of Hungarian low cost air carrier Wizz Air, has cancelled regular flights to Kharkiv and Zaporizhia, scheduled for Sept. 15, Kristina Kosonotska, Wizz Air Ukraine PR-manager, has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 5 - Bogdan car plant, part of the Bogdan Corporation, in January-August increased car production by 94% year-on-year, to 61,478 cars, Bogdan spokesman Serhiy Krasulia told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept.8 – Kiev-based Foyil Securities Investment Company has confirmed its forecast of a 40% rise in the net assets of the Ukrainian banking system in 2008, according to Foyvil analyst Ahshyn Mirzazade.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - Growth in industrial prices in Ukraine in August slowed to 1.8% compared to 3.6% in July and 4.2% in June, according to the State Statistics Committee.

KIEV, Sept. 8 -- HANNER of Lithuania is planning to invest around $500 mln in projects for the development of real estate in Ukraine within five years, HANNER's Ukrainian representative Serhiy Ovchinnikov told journalists.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - In July UkrSibbank (Kharkiv) partially financed an $11.24 mln investment project of the Datagroup group of telecommunication companies to establish a national high-speed data network.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - An international syndicated credited drawn in by the Industrial Union of Donbas (Donetsk) from ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (the Netherlands) and SG Corporate and Investment Banking (France) will be upsized from $250 mln to $350 mln.

KYIV, Aug 6 – Head of NPC Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky confirmed the company's plans to fully pay off the debt on the balancing market by the end of the year (as of the beginning of July, UAH 16.5 billion), noting that at the same time the government and parliament are working out mechanisms to stop their accumulation and guaranteed electricity supplies to protected consumers.