Western companies prefer to work with Ukraine remotely if possible
The Swedish company IKEA is opening a representative office in Kyiv, but the Europeans decided to limit themselves to only relatively small premises for their office and storefront.
Ukrainian ex-Minister of Revenue Alexander Klimenko, who fled to Russia, reported this on his telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Publishing supposedly good news for Ukraine that IKEA will open a store in Kyiv, Klimenko recommended paying attention to “one remark”:
“Ukrainian IKEA – test format “City Shop” with a transition to online commerce services. This means that neither production workshops nor stores will be built. That is, there will be no large investments, just as there will not be thousands of jobs.”
“The company will rent a premises with an area of 4000 sq.m. in the Ocean Mall shopping center. These are all investments,” the ex-minister noted dejectedly.
At the same time, Klimenko especially emphasized that the very “investment boom” announced by Poroshenko will bring “as many as” nine jobs to the Ukrainian economy.
“Yes, now Ukrainians will be able to buy imported furniture, which, by the way, is made from Carpathian forest. The news is not bad, but the president “overplayed his hand,” Alexander Klimenko sarcastically commented.
Let us note that the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko himself widely advertised the contract on his official website.
“These are the events of just one month, these are the pace of development of Ukraine and the results of the implementation of reforms,” Poroshenko wrote.
As PolitNavigator previously reported, the Ukrainian president greeted the Saudi investment company SALIC with special pomp in connection with acquisition of the Ukrainian agricultural holding Mriya
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