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Weekly Digest

– The National Bank met foreigners
– Ukrzaliznytsia will introduce automatic tariff indexation
– Search trends 2019
– The success of builders – a benefit for furniture makers
– Designers against plastic pollution of the planet

Everything that happened last week in Ukraine and the world and is relevant for the furniture maker, read our digest:

1. The National Bank has simplified the rules for opening bank accounts in Ukraine. Now our banks have the right to open accounts with foreigners and foreign companies with almost no restrictions.
The latter is especially important since foreign enterprises were able to open in Ukrainian banks not only investment accounts, but also ordinary current accounts, which had never happened before.
For foreigners, this is a real revolution, because before that they had to open subsidiaries in order to fully conduct business in Ukraine. In the new resolution, the National Bank allowed banks to take a risk-based approach and not to arrange total surveys of foreign enterprises, if their activity does not arouse any suspicion. However, financiers do not believe that it will be so.

2. Ukrzaliznytsia indexed tariffs for rail freight, raising them by 14.2%. This was announced by Andrei Ryazantsev, director of economics and finance of the domestic carrier, the press service of the company reports.
It is noted that the next step will be the introduction of automatic indexation of tariffs, and at this stage a special investment account has already been opened, where funds from indexation will be accumulated.
“It is only necessary to decide when this will be done, since the general tariff setting system will be developed by Ukrzaliznytsya together with market participants and government agencies on July 1, 2019 and should eliminate all the shortcomings of the existing system,” Ryazantsev said. According to him, Ukrzaliznytsia offered market participants regular indexing, which will occur quarterly with actual changes in the producer price index of industrial products.

3. Until 2021, the number of users making purchases online will increase to 2.14 billion. As experts at the analytical agency Statista predict. For e-commerce is good news. But the problem is that search engines regularly change the “rules of the game”: algorithms are updated, new filters are introduced, new ranking factors appear. Not only the search is transformed, the preferences and habits of users change. Those techniques and techniques of search marketing, which a few years ago provided the result and converted visitors into buyers, stop working. To successfully use search engines in changing conditions, it is important to understand the new trends.
SEO trends 2019 in fact began to form several years ago. It is not for the first time that experts and search engines talk about the importance of optimizing a site for mobile and voice search, about data security, personalization of visitors, a virtual consultant, and the use of augmented and virtual reality. However, the moment has come when these trends can no longer be ignored. The success of such promotion depends on whether you make changes to the strategy of promoting your products with regard to new trends.

4. The construction industry in Ukraine showed a sharp increase. In February, construction volumes in Ukraine grew by 19.5% compared to the same period last year. This is evidenced by data from the State Statistics Service.
New construction, reconstruction and technical re-equipment made up 79.8% of the total volume of construction products produced, capital and current repairs – 10.9% and 9.3%, respectively. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (almost 2 billion UAH), Kharkiv (1.8 billion UAH), Odessa (1 billion UAH) and Kiev (3.7 billion UAH) are in the lead among the regions in terms of construction work.
Last year, construction companies of Ukraine increased the volume of work compared with the 2017th by 4.4% – up to 136,000,000 hryvnia.

5. Plastic pollution is a serious environmental problem, so the struggle with it worries many minds. Milanese gallery owner and trendsetter Rossana Orlandi proposed to make the world a better place with the help of design, and for this purpose she introduced the Ro Plastic Prize contest.
The purpose of the competition is to challenge and inspire, to make it different to look at what the things that surround us are made of. Designers from different countries, of different age, with different education were invited to participate in this creative competition. It was necessary to submit your project, where the main role would be recycled plastic. Four categories: design, textiles, packaging, innovation. The best projects that reached the final were presented at the Rossano Orlandi Gallery at Milan Design Week, which runs until April 14. The professional jury will select one winner in each category, the prize for each of them will be a prize of 10,000 euros.

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