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Mariupol Buses The Project includes: (i) procurement of about 64 modern large capacity Euro-5 diesel buses and the bus workshop tools and equipment; (ii) reconstruction of the depot with maintenance and repair workshops and (iii) expansion of the traffic planning and management system of the dispatch center. Users access and service reliability: Renewal and significant increase of the City's municipal bus fleet with modern, efficient, safe and environmentally friendly large capacity units. The Project will increase ridership capacity, which will help MTTU serve growing demand for public transport (including pensioners and veterans),  and ensure reliability of bus services. 2. Bus service quality: Service standards will be improved in 62% of MTTU expanded fleet which will enable the provision of comfortable, efficient, and safe bus services. 3. Environment: Environmental benefits will include a reduction in CO2 emissions due to the replacement of outdated fleet and improved fleet utilization. 4. Resilience: The Project, along with advisory services, will promote systemic modification to pricing of bus transport service enabling cost recovery and promoting financial viability of public service. The Project is going to set incentives to improve the declining quality of private bus operators service. 5. Sustainability: The Project will enable systemic changes in 35% of Mariupol's municipal transport service by fostering the adoption of European environmental standards, such as fleet compliance with Euro 5 diesel, and with potential for replication to private service operators.
Auchan Ukraine Groupe Auchan (Auchan or the Group), one of the largest European food retailers, is expanding its operations in Ukraine, where it opened its first hypermarket in 2008 and currently operates ten stores. The Group has requested IFC to provide a long-term loan to its Ukrainian subsidiaries to partially finance a hypermarket in Odessa, as well as new hypermarkets and shopping centers in other cities (the Project). The Project''s development impact will include:  i) Benefit to low and middle-income consumers: The Project will contribute to increase access by low and middle-income households to quality foods, vegetables and goods at affordable prices as Auchan''s historical value proposition is being a food retail price-leader; ii) Food supply chain development: The Project will help improve food quality and safety standards throughout the agribusiness value chain iii) Employment creation: The Project will generate a significant number of direct jobs during construction and operation. Furthermore, the Project will also generate a significant number of indirect jobs through retail supply chains and related services companies; iv) Improvement in green building standards: The Project will contribute to set higher local green-building standards in the country which could have a strong demonstration effect in terms of local climate change mitigation.
Zeus Ceramica The project is the construction of a greenfield ceramic tile plant, CJSC Zeus Ceramica (Zeus or the Company), with a total annual production capacity of 4.3 million square meters of porcelain (ceramic granite) tiles in Slavyansk, Donetsk region in Ukraine.  The Project is being implemented in two phases.  The first phase (Phase I), the construction and installation of the companys first line with an annual production capacity of 2.0 million square meters, was completed in March 2005.  The second phase (Phase II), the installation of another line with a capacity of 2.3 million square meters, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2007.
Ukraine Venture Capital Fund II Summary Of Project Information (SPI)       Project Name    Ukraine-Ukraine Fund                     Region    Europe      Sector   Project No007098   Projected Board DateJanuary 15, 1996   Company NameUkraine Fund   Technical Partner and/or Major Shareholders    	Claflin Management Partners, Bank of Boston, Emerging Markets Investors, EBRD, IFC    Project Cost Including proposed IFC investment    	US$18 million, including proposed IFC investment of US$1.5 million    Location of project and Description of site    	The Funds management company office is located in Kiev; however, portfolio companies are located throughout Ukraine.    Description of Company and Purpose of Project    	The Ukraine Fund is an equity capital fund which invests in small, privately-owned Ukrainian companies.  IFC committed US$2 million to the Fund in December 1993; the current project represents an increase in capital in order to continue the Funds investment program.  To date, the Fund has made investments totalling US$5.3 million in 18 private companies throughout Ukraine.    Environmental Category and Issues    	IFCs Environment Division has classified the project as Category FI. IFC has ascertained that the Fund has an Environmental Risk Management System in place and has the capacity to assess the potential environmental risks of its investee companies.       Date SPI sent to PIC     December 13, 1995      For Additional Information contact:  Corporate Relations Unit -   telephone: (202) 473-7711   facsimile: (202) 676-0365
HPC Odessa Project HPC Ukraina (the Company) operates the Odessa Container Terminal (OCT) within the Odessa Port, the largest seaport in Ukraine and one of the Black Seas biggest ports. The Project is to extend the existing OCT through the construction and operation of a new, adjacent container terminal (the Quarantine Mole Terminal, or the QMT).  These two terminals will have a combined capacity of 850,000 TEUs upon completion, increasing from the current capacity of 550,000 TEUs at OCT.  HPC Ukrainas portion of the QMT extension project includes: (i) land reclamation; (ii) construction of the access dam and pavement of the quay and access ways; (iii) purchase and installation of container handling and related equipment.  In addition, the Company will replace equipment and conduct maintenance civil work at OCT. The Project will increase Ukraines competitiveness, and indirectly drive trade growth, by providing modern efficient container handling capacity with deep draft to better serve the countrys exports and imports.  The Project will help reduce the cost of transportation by serving larger vessels which have lower unit costs, therefore benefitting shippers, shipping lines, and consumers alike.  It will also strengthen the countrys port sector by increasing competition in the market and encouraging other terminal operators to improve the efficiency and service standards of their own terminal facilities.  The Projects success will also have a demonstration effect for encouraging private infrastructure investments in Ukraine. In addition, the increased capacity is expected to result in more fiscal revenues to Ukraine when trade recovers.
Zaporizhzhia Smart City The Project seeks to provide long term financing to the City of Zaporizhzhia (the City) to support a comprehensive package of initiatives focusing mainly on improving energy efficiency, transport logistics, municipal infrastructure development and deployment of innovative and sustainable technologies to improve urban transport and other infrastructure programs. The financing will be used for (i) procurement of e-buses, trolleybuses, and related infrastructure, (ii) reconstruction of traction substations, (iii) procurement of IoT sensors and smart city infrastructure, (iv) procurement of road construction and cleaning equipment, (v) reconstruction of a street, and (vi) public park development.     The project is expected to be supported by the Clean Technology Fund (CTF). The project supports an investment program aimed at modernizing and improving efficiency of urban infrastructure in the city of Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, with implications on access, quality and safety of service. The Project will modernize and improve public transport operations, as well as overhaul a street. This will improve the quality and safety of public transport. IFC expects the investment program to also contribute to lowering emissions, from introduction of new trolleybuses with autonomous running systems, updating rolling stock to more ecological standards, and providing stable energy supply to charging stations for e-buses and electric transport. Through IFC's advisory services, this engagement improves access to finance, by helping the City to establish a credit rating. At a market level, the Project pilots an IFC "Smart City" approach that improves competitiveness of the city, and could evolve into a scalable product and solution, with potential demonstration effects in Ukraine and other countries in the region. The Project also contributes to improve mobility and connectivity of the city's transportation network.
AP Bank Project The proposed investment is a financing package of up to US$15 million equivalent for Joint Stock Company Agroprosperis Bank (AP Bank or the Bank). It will support the Banks lending program to private-sector small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Ukraine, particularly those in the agribusiness sector and rural areas (the Project). IFC will provide and mobilize additional funding to support Bank's lending to its SME customers, particularly those operating in the agribusiness, and contribute to increasing the availability of financing for SMEs in Ukraine through demonstration, replication and competition channels.
Delta-Wilmar CIS Expansion Delta-Wilmar CIS, a palm oil refinery and shortening manufacturer and current IFC client in Ukraine, will increase its capacity and invest in related infrastructure at its plant near the Yuzhny port in Odessa region. The project is expected to have the following development impacts:    - supporting the growth of a private productive enterprise in the CIS;  - providing a quality refined tropical oils to the food processing industry; - enhancing competition in the fats and oils market; - establishing an infrastructure investment supporting the trade and refining of tropical oils into the CIS markets;  - bringing additional tax revenues for the Government of Ukraine with import duties and corporate income tax;  - offer further leverage to improve the company''s environmental and social management capabilities; and - local employment generation.
Emerging Europe Growth Fund III, L.P. The proposed project consists of an equity investment of up to US$20 million in Emerging Europe Growth Fund III, L.P. (the Fund or EEGF III), a closed-end private equity fund organized as a Delaware limited partnership with a target size of US$150 million. The Fund will have a generalist sector strategy and will invest in small and mid-market growth capital transactions primarily in Ukraine. (i) Job creation: The Fund will focus on small and mid-cap companies with growth capital needs, which tend to have the largest impact on job creation, and the most potential for IFC to develop direct relationships with the underlying companies, through potential co-investment opportunities.
(ii) Access to finance: SMEs are constrained by a lack of access to long-term, risk-oriented capital and institutional support. The Fund will provide long term risk capital at a time of economic stress in Ukraine. 
(iii) Private sector development: The Fund will play an active role in strengthening governance and transparency of the investee companies. Through its hands-on involvement, operating efficiencies of the portfolio companies will be improved, thus promoting growth and sustainability.
ALD Automotive II Ukraine IFC proposes to provide up to US$5 million senior loan (up to 4 years) to First Lease LLC (First Lease or the Company), fully owned by ALD International, a leasing subsidiary of Societe Generale Group. The proposed project (the Project) would support the post-crisis growth of the Companys leasing portfolio aimed to provide high-level car lease and fleet management services throughout Ukraine. The project is expected to have a significant development impact as it would:  (i) support Ukrainian financial (non-banking) sector after the recent crisis and in the current fragile economic environment; (ii) enhance further development of the leasing industry in Ukraine, which is still at an early stage; (iii) enable the Company to expand its client network throughout Ukraine, including frontier regions; (iv) facilitate access to finance via leasing services to result in more job creation; (v) strengthen the Company''s capacity in environmental and social management standards, creating a demonstration effect for other companies in the country to upgrade.
Agrofusion Project The proposed investment is to support Agrofusion Group (the Company), the largest tomato paste and industrial tomato producer in Ukraine, by strengthening its capital base through refinancing existing short term debt and financing incremental permanent working capital.  Established in 2007, Agrofusion is the largest vertically integrated tomato paste producer in Ukraine, marketing its products mainly to large FMCG companies in Ukraine, Russia, other CIS countries, and to a lesser extent Western European markets. The Companys operational assets include:  (i) two tomato paste plants with total processing capacity of approximately 300,000 metric tons of tomatoes per season (6,000 tons of tomatoes a day); (ii) two seedling green-houses; and (iii) 12,000 hectares of irrigated leased land in Mykolayiv and Kherson regions as well as modern farming equipment. The proposed investment intended to support the Company''s current capital structure will: (i) help a leading Ukrainian tomato paste producer to scale up its export revenues and increase inflow of the foreign currency; (ii) support a viable economic activity and help secure employment in frontier rural area of Kherson region; and (iii) have a demonstration effect on other vegetable producers in Ukraine through promotion of sustainable agricultural practices.
Ukrplastic Project table, .k-table{ border-collapse:collapse; width:100%; table-layout:fixed; margin-bottom: 15px;} .k-table, .k-table td, table, table td {outline: 0;border: 1px solid #000; } .k-table td, table td { padding: 5px; }        The Project, sponsored by Immer Group (the Group or the Sponsor), of approximately Euro 60 million is to expand and modernize the Groups operating capacities as well as strengthen its balance sheet through re-profiling of its debt portfolio. 1) Supporting local producer:  Immer Group is one of the largest producers in the manufacturing sector in Ukraine, supporting viable economic activity and preserving jobs during these difficult times in Ukraine
2) Demonstration effect:  some of the IFC's financing will be directed towards completion of energy and cost efficient investments, launched before the crisis.  The Project will serve as a strong example to other companies in Ukraine and encourage them to reduce their cost by investing in energy efficient technologies.
3) Employment preservation: IFC financing will help sustain operations and, hence, preserve jobs for the Company's employees as well as for its people/ businesses in the supply chain.
4) Food security and resource efficiency: improvement of agriculture yields thanks to locally produced, affordable mulch and silage films helping to save on watering, seeds and cattle food
5) Support of the weakened economy of a conflict affected country.
ProCredit Ukr EE The proposed loan of up to $20 million (the Loan) from IFC to ProCredit Ukraine (ProCredit or the Bank) is intended to enable the Bank to extend financing for energy efficiency (EE) improvements to micro-, small-, and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) and individuals. The loan will be complemented by Advisory Services to help the Bank build capacity and grow its loan portfolio in the EE segment.     ProCredit Ukraine started its operations in Ukraine in 2001. The Bank specializes in providing financing to micro, small and medium-sized Ukrainian enterprises.  With total assets of approximately $455 million as of end of year 2007, the Bank ranks 40   th    largest bank in Ukraine. The potential developmental and institutional impact of the project is high. The project is expected to generate an important impact in Ukraines EE sector development, EE finance market development and have significant environmental and social impact.   Ukraines economy is vulnerable to potential increases in gas import prices and possible supply shocks. Improving energy efficiency of the economy is important to ensure further sustainable growth and therefore has become one of high priorities for Ukrainian government. This project will have a positive impact on the development of Ukraines EE sector via supporting energy efficiency improvements in the MSME sector and household sector.  Current lending environment in Ukraine provides limited opportunities for financing energy efficiency improvements. This project will help IFC support a significant number of EE projects in the housing sector and MSME sector which might otherwise be illegible for traditional bank financing. As one of the first EE dedicated credit lines for MSMEs and households, the project will introduce a new loan product to the market and will support EE finance sector development in the country.   Via financing EE improvements, this project would result in energy savings for the end-users, will lower their energy costs and will decrease negative impact on the environment. Through energy efficiency housing renovation loans, the project is also expected to contribute to the increase of residual income of the population through reduction of utility payments and will improve standards of living in low-income households. In addition, the project will raise awareness of the general population on investing into EE improvements.
Soufflet Ukraine The project involves providing a loan of up to $25 million for working capital to New World Grain Ukraine (NWGU), a 50-50 subsidiary of Groupe Soufflet (Soufflet) and ABB Grain (ABB). NWGU will use the proceeds for the loan to originate wheat and barley for Soufflet and ABBs trading operations in Ukraine.   Soufflet has had trading operations in Ukraine for the past five years. Both Soufflet and ABB have a long-term strategy to establish and grow their grain trading operations in Ukraine. IFCs working capital facility to Soufflet and ABB is instrumental to ensure the continuity of their trading operations in Ukraine under present crisis conditions. In turn, farmers in Ukraine will benefit from Soufflet and ABBs permanent presence in the country as NWGU will purchase grain on a long term basis. IFCs working capital facility is instrumental, under present crisis conditions, in ensuring the continuity of Soufflet and ABBs trading operations in Ukraine. In turn Ukrainian farmers will benefit from Soufflet and ABBs permanent presence in the country as NWGU will purchase grain year after year. The project will increase global trade flows in the grain sector and increase grain exports from Ukraine. It will also create more competition between traders and this will ultimately benefit farmers.   The project is expected to positively impact the following stakeholders:   - Farmers: The project is expected to reach a minimum of 500 farmers and therefore a large number of employees and land owners. The project will benefit farmers as it will expand the number of buyers, create competition for farmers output and thereby allowing farmers to sell their output at the best price. NWGU will be among the buyers who would compete for grain on the local market.      - SME Development: NWGU hires local contractors to transport grains from farms and collection centers to storage facilities. The number of transportation trips and contracts are likely to increase significantly. It also employs a number of service companies (inspection, port, etc) that are essential to grain trade.     - Customers: by improving the efficiency of the local supply chain, NWGU will improve the cost structure which can help ease price pressures on key commodities (wheat, barley).  NWGU largely supplies the Middle East region, which possesses deficits in basic grains, and has been impacted by the recent global food shortages.
Mironovsky Khleboprodukt CJSC As a vertically integrated poultry producer, Mironovsky Khleboprodukt (Mironovsky, MKP or the company) currently holds a leading position in Ukraine poultry market.  The company was one of the pioneers in developing a chilled distribution system to retailers, and rapidly grew in size reaching a sale volume of 43,000mt of ready to cook poultry products in 2002. The company sells chilled poultry products (whole birds, cutup, giblets etc.) under a well recognized brand name, Nasha Ryaba, across Ukraine, with the strongest presence in the Kiev region.

The project aims to take advantage of the increasingly growing poultry consumption in Ukraine, low production costs, a robust management team and the companys leading market position.  The project will help Mironovsky to capitalize on the opportunities offered by the rapidly changing consumer preference towards chilled products.  By sharing IFCs global investment experience, the project will enable the company to improve its corporate governance and rationalize its corporate structure.  The project will also directly benefit at least 400 outside workers who sell the companys products through franchise in addition to employing some 4,000 staff on site.
Megabank Project The proposed Project consists of an IFC investment in Megabank (or the Bank), a leading commercial bank in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, located in the northeastern part of the country.  Megabank is a mid-sized universal commercial bank, ranked 47th in Ukraine in terms of total assets.  In addition to offering a full range of banking services, the Bank also provides a unique utility payments service through a system called the Integrated Clearing Center (the ICC) which allows households to make a variety of utility and rent payments through the Bank on a single monthly bill.  Today the Banks ICC system serves 2 million households, representing 15% of the utility payments processing market in Ukraine.  IFCs investment will consist of:  - $10 million in 3-year convertible senior loan and  - $10 million 7-year subordinated loan.    The purpose of the investment is to strengthen the capital and liquidity of the Bank in the face of the current crisis in Ukraine, and to facilitate future growth once the economic situation stabilizes (the Project). Financial Market Stability: The Project is expected to help reassure depositors, borrowers and creditors about the financial health of Megabank and instill confidence in Ukraines banking sector.    Contribution to Economic Growth: Banking penetration in Ukraine is mainly concentrated in the capital, Kyiv.  The proposed Project will increase the availability of banking services and range of financial products outside Kyiv, particularly in the Kharkiv region which has a high concentration of SMEs.  More importantly, this investment will help Megabank expand the availability of financial services in 6 out of the 10 frontier regions in Ukraine in which it has existing presence.  The Project is expected to help speed up economic recovery and therefore help create and maintain jobs in Ukraine.