New Member – Craft Innovations

We would like to welcome Craft Innovations as the newest member of CUCC.

Craft Innovations is a research & design firm that helps entrepreneurs and enterprises discover actionable insights about customers’ needs, design products & services people are excited to use.

Founded in 2019, the company has offices in Canada, Ukraine, representatives in the EU, and Beijing. Among Craft Innovations’ customers are such brands as Mastercard, PrivatBank, RiverMall, Uklon, UNDP, British American Tobacco, CanadaVisa, Moldindconbank, and others.

CI helps clients create competitive market advantage and grow customer loyalty by:

– Customer experience & market intelligence

– New product ideas and monetization models validation

– Top user experience design: Websites, SaaS platforms and Applications

– Service design and product innovation consulting

– Development services

CI’s motto – We care bout clients project as it’s our own.

www.craftinnovations.global

Canada-Ukraine Agri Forum 2023

CUCC actively participates in events dedicated to rebuilding of Ukraine. Yuriy Kryvosheya, Vice-President of the CUCC, and Emma Turos, Managing Director for Ukraine had a pleasure of attending the Canada-Ukraine Agri Forum 2023, organized by the Embassy of Canada to Ukraine on March 1, 2023, in Kyiv. Participants had an opportunity to learn about:

  • Updates on Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement
  • Challenges and opportunities in Ukraine’s agricultural sector
  • Financial instruments for support of agricultural and retail sectors from Export Development Canada
  • Canadian expertise in agricultural machinery from Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership

Panel discussions welcomed representatives of Ukrainian agricultural and retail companies to talk about how the war changed the geography and structure of import, as well as to share their views on future process of recovery of the agricultural sector of Ukraine.

Canada and Ukraine will continue to work together towards strengthening their bilateral trade relations regardless of the challenges that temporarily exist due to russia’s on-going war against Ukraine.

New Member – SPP Development Ukraine

New Member Alert!

We would like to welcome SPP Development Ukraine as our newest member.

SPP Development Ukraine is a multicompetent company operating in all aspects of the Energy sphere (Renewables and Power Infrastructure). SPP is a Development and EPC company with a full range of services, including maintenance and operation.

SPP Development Ukraine is among the few companies that own their construction machinery, equipment, materials and can offer technical support, professional design, engineering group, highly qualified employees, and most importantly successful project implementation.

Since the company’s founding in 2019, SPP has implemented Renewables with a total capacity of more than 110 MW DC. Projects implemented by SPP were recognized as best projects in Eastern Europe in 2019 and 2021.

Currently, SPP is developing innovative projects such as Energy Storage Systems, Wind Parks, Green Hydrogen Plant, Solar Power Plants, and Data Center.

Rebuild Ukraine Conference – February 15-16, 2023 (Warsaw, Poland)

This week CUCC Vice President Yuriy Kryvosheya had a pleasure of attending the ReBuild Ukraine Conference in Warsaw. The two-day conference was a hybrid of forum and exhibition, it attracted 1000+ participants from 22 countries including representatives from 60 Ukrainian territorial communities, IFIs, government and business.

It was a great opportunity to meet and connect with our friends at EBRD, Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada, Trade Commissioner Service | Service des délégués commerciaux, CEO Club Ukraine Delta Group and PKF hospitality group to discuss current and future cooperation and projects.

 

New Member Alert – UMG Investments

New Member Alert!

We would like to welcome our newest member UMG INVESTMENTS.

UMG INVESTMENTS is an investment firm of Ukrainian origin that combines an ambitious entrepreneurial spirit with years of experience and а thorough investing process. It’s a captive private equity firm with a diversified portfolio of 11 assets located in Ukraine and some new brownfield projects in the EU & Turkey. As of January 2022, the company has ~$1 BN assets under management. Key areas for investing are green economy, agri-processing, logistics, industrial minerals, healthcare and niche manufacturing.

 

 

CUCC Annual General Meeting 2023

On January 25th, 2023 Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce held its Annual General Meeting at the Old Mill.

CUCC President Zenon Potichny reported on CUCC’s achievements in 2022 and presented activities and vision for 2023 as well as Executive Committee that will be working to fulfill these activities. Executive Committee consists of President Zenon Potichny, Vice President John Iwaniura, Vice President Markiyan Vytvytskyy, Vice President Markiyan Markevych, Vice President, Western Ukraine, Victoria Umin and Vice President, Ukraine, Yuriy Kryvosheya.

Roman Shimonov, Founder and CEO of Roshel Inc. and John Moskalyk, Principal at ADR International Corp. were nominated and elected to join the Board of Directors.

CUCC new members ELEKS Manac Inc. Craft Innovations MADPI GLOBAL Chrystia Chudczak Nova Global Aztec Energy and EDILTECO® Group had an opportunity to present their companies and scope of work to other members.

Among guests of honor were Madam Ambassador Yuliya Kovaliv and The Honourable Senator David Wells. We were delighted to see representatives from Export Development Canada and Global Affairs Canada at our event.

New Member Alert – BDO Ukraine

We would like to introduce BDO in Ukraine as newest member of CUCC.

With 200 employees in two office in Kyiv and Dnipro, BDO in Ukraine is the leading audit and consulting company that provides a wide range of services in audit, tax and legal consulting, financial advisory, capital transactions, restructurings, management consulting, sustainable development and more.

BDO in Ukraine provides high quality services of world-known auditing and consulting company combined with deep local knowledge and experience of a local one.

New Member – OtiPharm

We would like to welcome our newest member OtiPharm.

Otipharm Research is a Ukrainian company that provides expertise in the pharmaceutical sector, which is based on the gained experience. The vision of our company is to create the
value of Ukrainian pharmaceutical companies in foreign markets.

The company provides complex range of services for MA holders, pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, among which the main ones are:

1.Entering the markets for pharmaceutical companies,
2. Integrated sale/purchase of rights on medicinal products/portfolio development,
3. Software solution for pharmacovigilance,
4. Regulatory pharmaceutical intelligence

The company has an extensive network of partners in various markets and significant successful experience in working with European, Asian and Ukrainian companies in projects of various complexity and scale.

UCARE – creating ‘Ukrainian shelves’ in supermarkets all over the world

We would like to introduce you to UCARE.

In response to all the challenges, the leaders of the Ukrainian food market united in the UCARE by FoodTechShelf initiative. The first unique international impact project to support Ukrainian food producers. UCARE is not a national program, but due to the importance of the project, it cooperates with a number of government agencies. They establish bridges between Ukrainian food producers and retailers in Europe, USA and Canada creating special ‘Ukrainian shelves’ in foreign supermarkets. Thanks to this initiative foreign retailers are able to create a single channel to deal with Ukrainian companies and shelves with the best Ukrainian products in stores.

All products comply with EU, USA and Canadian standards. Logistics, product acquisition, marketing, and operational work are done by UCARE.

WHAT UCARE DOES?

✔️ Creating a permanent channel with Ukrainian manufacturers for the partner retail chain: placing custom landing with your requests on the project platform, provide targeted traffic, conduct one-time scouting among more than 2000 Ukrainian manufacturers and provide information on all targeted and verified manufacturers and their products

✔️Primary negotiations, collecting and structuring  data and preparing information that allows retailer to quickly make effective decisions on goods purchase

✔️Logistics providing, monitoring shipments, money transfers and documents

✔️ Providing a set of ready-made marketing and communication texts and designs for promotion of the “Ukrainian shelf” in the partner stores and help to adapt them, taking into account the specifics of the retail chain

✔️Reporting on the funds allocated to charitable projects, provide press releases about the participation of the partner and its consumers in the assistance provided

UCARE objectives:

✔️Support Ukraine’s economy:

– High-quality, delicious Ukrainian products on the supermarket’s shelves all over the world to ‘TASTE THE REAL UKRAINE’

– Assist Ukrainian producers to replace losses in the domestic market through the exports

– A simple and profitable way for consumers to support Ukraine purchasing  local products,  receiving the best from Ukraine in response

✔️Form Ukraine’s  FOODTECH ecosystem contributing the emergence and  innovative food products scaling and technologies in food production

✔️Provide assistance to people in need by supporting a number of social and humanitarian projects – 50% of the project’s profits go to proven charitable foundations (TABLETOCHKI, UANIMALS, etc)

Advantages for retailer 

✔️Commercial: increase consumer loyalty by creating a ‘Ukrainian shelf’ and participating in Ucare project

✔️ Innovative: a new range of products at attractive prices

✔️Operational:  long-term relations with UCARE as reliable operator, aggregating food supplies from the best Ukrainian producers, increase revenue and profits 

✔️ Marketing: powerful information occasion and strong promotion as a partner, links to a relevant sites and visual content

✔️Social and charitable additional recognition 

To learn more please contact partner@ucare.foodtechshelf.com 
or visit Ucare (foodtechshelf.com).

New Member – Roshel Smart Armored Vehicles

We would like to welcome Roshel Smart Armored Vehicles as the newest member of Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce.

Roshel is one of the largest manufacturers of smart armored vehicles for commercial and government organizations in North America.

The company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It’s long-standing commitment to quality and innovation, both in their process and their products, makes Roshel a leader in today’s secured transportation vehicles industry.

Until 2022, Roshel had been selling it’s armored vehicles Senator mostly to security and law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and other western allies. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, CEO of Roshel Roman Shimonov supercharged Roshel’s production line, increasing its output tenfold compared to previous year. Roshel can complete production of two Senator vehicles per day. And it’s possible to get them delivered on the ground in Ukraine in a month — speed that is critical to the forces defending against the invaders.