1. The Ministry of Digital Transformation selected 20 winners of the export support pilot program to enter the Polish market. Among the winners who will receive marketing and legal assistance is a furniture manufacturer. This is the company “MIRATER” from Khmelnytskyi, known for furniture for bathrooms, which intends to establish the production of furniture for children’s rooms as well.<\/p>\n
2. At the government level, the rules for felling trees and shrubs on forestry lands when changing their purpose and using the resulting wood for purposes unrelated to forestry were approved. This innovation is designed to reduce opportunities for abuse and strengthen control over the said feeling.<\/p>\n
3. The number of manufacturing companies using marketing research, which offers profile international companies to track changes in people’s consumption habits, has halved in the country under martial law. Although, especially now, it is impossible to make balanced business decisions without collecting insights – both due to a change in the market brand landscape and due to a total change in consumer attitudes.<\/p>\n
4. And for this year, the government continued the program, which provides for the payment of compensation to employers for the employment of internally displaced persons. For each such employed person, the state pays the employer compensation in the amount of the minimum wage (6,700 hryvnias) for two months.<\/p>\n
5. “Nova poshta” opened the first freight department in Warsaw, which will handle parcels up to 1000 kg. You can send new generators, batteries, and charging stations without customs duty and customs clearance tax, and order delivery to any “Novaya Poshta” freight office in Ukraine or to the recipient’s address.<\/p>\n
6. The current legislation of Ukraine stipulates that the number of instruments for control and regulation of business should not exceed 120, however, as the head of the specialized parliamentary committee Danylo Hetmantsev said, more than 1,000 similar documents were discovered. The government has the political will to radically reduce its number, so it has created a working group to improve the regulatory environment.<\/p>\n
7. 97% of those who have their own business, or would like to have one, are ready to hire a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war. 93% of all respondents indicated that they are ready to work in the same team with veterans. This indicates that the military can count on full support and understanding from both business leaders and work teams. That is, society itself is ready to support veterans.<\/p>\n
8. We learned from the Internet resource “Carpathian Lens” that our colleagues from the western region believe that the current war has had a less negative impact on the furniture industry than the previously experienced restrictions due to the covid quarantine. “Although the country is being bombed, furniture is being bought. And not only our compatriots.”<\/p>\n
9. Polish furniture makers felt the consequences of the decline in construction volumes, which appeared last year, later than Polish builders. Currently, they are no less worried about the state of the construction industry than the decline in furniture production. They also see a threat to themselves in the fact that Poles now prefer renting a home to buying a new one.<\/p>\n
10. The organizers of the textile exhibition “London Fabric Show”, which will last for two days (February 28 and March 1), invite furniture makers to familiarize themselves with new upholstery fabrics. This is an opportunity for furniture makers to see creative and innovative textile designs, meet new suppliers, and demonstrate courage in updating their line of furniture textiles.<\/p>\n\n\t\t