KIEV, July 23 – Swiss-based Nestle, one of the world's largest food producers, plans in 2013 to invest UAH 36 million in its Lviv-based Svitoch confectionery factory.

KIEV, July 23 - DTEK, which in recent years has bought two of Ukraine's four state thermal power generating companies, is not intending to participate in tenders for the purchase of the third and fourth companies, Donbasenergo and Centrenergo.

KIEV, July 23 - Metinvest, Ukraine's largest mining and steel group, has reached an agreement with Black Iron Inc on investment in Black Iron (Cyprus) Ltd (BKI Cyprus), a subsidiary of the Canadian miner that owns iron ore assets in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 23 – Italian Group Intesa Sanpaolo has put Ukrainian-based Pravex-Bank up for sale, Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper reported.

The group acquired the bank from the family of Kiev ex-mayor Leonid Chernovetsky for EUR 493 million in July 2008.

KIEV, July 23 – Election advertising on television on the First National Channel will cost from UAH 110 to UAH 513 per second depending on the time of broadcasting, the Segodnya newspaper reported.

KIEV, July 23 - The Finance Ministry's placing of five-year eurobonds worth $2 billion has revived demand for Ukrainian debt securities, but their prices over the week remained almost unchanged, according to Svitlana Rusakova, a specialist at the department for international sales of debt securities at Dragon Capital.

KIEV, July 23 – Russia's Sibur and Eurochem, Norway’s Yara International and Ukraine's Privat Group (Dnipropetrovsk) have showed their interest in taking part in a tender to sell a 99.576% stake in OJSC Odessa Port-Side Plant, the acting head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Parfenenko, said.

KIEV, July 21 – Ukrros sugar union is seeking a partner for the purchase of equipment for the Hubynykha sugar refinery in Dnipropetrovsk region to produce bioethanol, according to Ukrros' co-owner Oleksandr Fedorenko.

KIEV, July 21 - Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd. (British Virgin Islands) has started drawing up a program and budget for the realization of the first stage of exploration of the Prykerchensky field on the shelf of the Black Sea in 2010.

KIEV, July 21 – Ukraine cut electricity exports by more than half, or 2.201 billion kWh, in H1 year-over-year, to 1.478 billion kWh, the Fuel and Energy
Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.