Lego plans to open 120 new stores in 2020, according to Retail Gazette.
The company reported sales growth in the first half of the year. In quarantine kits were very popular, in particular, among adult consumers.
“About 80 new outlets will be located in China. Now the company has 612 stores worldwide,” – said Lego CEO Niels Christiansen.
According to him, the transition to online shopping before the pandemic helped the company during the isolation.
Specifically, in six months Lego managed to maintain sales and increase revenue by 7% – about 2.5 billion dollars.
The opening of the plant of the Fujikura company in Ukraine should be a strong signal to all investors willing to believe in our country. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko wrote about this in his Twitter after the opening of the new plant of Fujikura in village Pidryasne near Lviv. “You will not find […]
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Amazon seems to be looking for a new strong factor for its growth. On Monday, the media wrote about its talks with MGM Holdings, the holding company that owns the 100-year-old film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shares of Amazon jumped 1.47% at the close of trading on the NASDAQ on Monday, continuing to rise in non-trading time. […]
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Intel Corp. sells to South Korean the SK Hynix Inc. unit in the field of manufacture NAND memory chips and the storage devices for $ 9 billion. The agreement includes manufacturing operations for NAND chips SSD-drives, NAND components and semiconductor wafers, said in the press release from Intel. SK Hynix will also receive the plant […]
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Shares of Zoom and other companies, which rose amid the pandemic and lockdown, fell in trading on Monday. The reason was the announcement of two biotechnology companies about the successful testing of a promising vaccine, writes CNBC. Shares of the Zoom video conferencing service fell 17.4% by the end of the trading day. Amazon and […]
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Representatives of Yanair Ukrainian airlines are seriously thinking about creating their own flight school on the basis of the Zhytomyr airport. It came to be known to the journalists from CEO Volodymyr Sobolev. According to him, the last time Yanair received an impressive number of offers from foreign pilots who are willing to pay for […]
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Singapore’s gross domestic product in the second quarter of 2020 fell by 41.2% compared to the previous quarter. This is evidenced by preliminary national statistics published on Tuesday, July 14. The volume of industrial production decreased by 23.1%, while construction fell by 95.6%, and the decline in services amounted to 37.7%. The results were a […]
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At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, May 19, the contract with five members of Naftogaz’s supervisory board was extended. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal announced this in the Telegram. He clarified that the agreements were extended for up to a year. “We are also grateful to Clare Spottiswood, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Naftogaz, who […]
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The agreement between two chemical corporations will make a company with a market value of $ 120 million. According to information of WSJ, two companies began to discuss the merger in November 2015. Now representatives of the enterprises carry out the last part of the negotiations between the leaders. When companies announced about agreement between […]
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The American company Walt Disney stated that it is experiencing a number of economic problems due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the result of which it is forced to lay off 28,000 employees in the United States. This was reported by Bloomberg. “No matter how frantic this step is, this is the only possible option […]
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Boeing Aerospace Corporation will start producing aircraft that will run entirely on biofuels by 2030. “To refuel the aircraft with environmentally friendly” fuel “, Boeing will need to modify the engines and other systems of aircraft. In addition, you will need a certificate confirming the safe operation of the aircraft,” – said in a press […]
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What are the prospects for the development of foreign and domestic business in Ukraine in the next three years? Petro Rondiak, the Chairman of the Board of Winner Group Ukraine At Winner, we have always been optimistic about the prospects of Ukraine. Our investments reflect the long-term intentions for staying in the country. In the […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has allowed Ukrainian pharmaceutical companies to enter new world markets – the EU and Asia. The head of the board of Darnitsa Group Dmitry Shymkov in an interview stated this with the executive director of the European Business Association Anna Derevyanko. In particular, the shortage of medicines arose due to the fact […]
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Ukraine plans to privatize 737 state-owned enterprises during 2021-2023. The Ministry of Economy published the list of objects for sale. Although some companies will be able to sell only after the amendments to the legislation. In particular, such large enterprises as Centerenergo, the United Mining and Chemical Company, Turboatom, the Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Plant, […]
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If coronavirus vaccines become widely available and help restore international trade and economic growth, the dollar is likely to fall by 20% in 2021. Bloomberg reports that this forecast was made by Citigroup Bank. If the forecast comes true, it will be a record drop since 1985, when the DXY index fell by 18.5% over […]
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Recently, government program “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%” has been significantly amended allowing small and medium businesses to get even more opportunities to obtain loans at the rate of 0% p.a. or a reduced rate of 3% p.a. For this purpose, Credit Agricole and the Entrepreneurship Development Fund signed new agreements. What has changed for customers […]
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Corporation of International Business Machines Corp on Monday announced an edition of a new central processing unit (CPU) for data centers POWER10. According to the company’s press release, the processor is made in the form factor of 7 nm with increased energy efficiency and three times better workload capacity than the previous generation of IBM […]
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