KIEV, May 23 - Switzerland's Ferrexpo AG, which owns Poltava GOK, Ukraine's biggest producer of iron ore pellets, plans to conduct an IPO of London-based Ferrexpo Plc's stocks on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

KIEV, May 23 ??“ McDonald's Ukraine is planning to almost double the number of its fast-food restaurants to 100 in five to seven years, McDonald's Ukraine Director General Igor Delov has said.

KIEV, May 23 - Rockwool International A/S has decided to build a green field factory to produce insulation materials in Ukraine, reads a quarterly report recently announced by the company.

MOSCOW, May 23 ??“ Gorodskoi Ipotechniy Bank (City Mortgage Bank) of Russia, which is part of Morgan Stanley, is mulling over entering Ukraine's mortgage market, yet, there is no time frame for such a move so far, said the bank's First Vice-Governor Ruslan Iseyev.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ ZAZ, Ukraine??™s largest car producer, plans to manufacture 2,800 Lanos Pick-Up cars between by the end of the year, seeking to boost exports to Russia and the Middle East.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ Ukreximbank, one of two state-owned commercial banks in Ukraine, may conduct an IPO in 2007 if the relevant amendments to legislation are approved, the bank's CEO Viktor Kapustin said.

KIEV, May 23 ??“ The U.S. urged Ukraine to reconsider its earlier decision to abandon an independent stock market clearing depository and to develop a similar state-owned entity, Interfax-Ukraine reported Tuesday.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ Ukrgaz-Energo, a 50-50 natural gas distributor owned by gas trader RosUkrEnergo and Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, plans to double gas imports next year, a company official said Tuesday.

KIEV, May 19 ??“ The sixth international exhibition "Energy Forum Ukraine-2005 (Oil. Gas. Coal. Energy Sector)" will take place in Kiev on May 24-27, the exhibition organizational committee told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 20 ??“ The World Bank will lend the state-run Ukrhydroenergo $100 million to modernize its hydropower plants.