D&B Report Guide - Ukraine

Facts and figures:

Country Ukraine
Business Universe 800,000,000
International Dialling Code 380
Legal Currencies Ukranian Hryvnia (UAH)
Population 49,000,000
Capital Kiev
Language Ukranian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian
Time GMT + 2
Government Presidential Republic

D&B Business Information Report content:

D&B Rating Yes Credit Appraisal Yes
Public Data Yes Financial Ratios Yes
D&B Payment Score n/a    

Legal forms in Ukraine:

Legal Form Legal Form (local)
Sole Proprietorship Pryvatniy pidpryemets bez utvorennya yuzydychnoyi osoby
Private Co Pzyvatne pidpreyemstvo
Limited Liability Co (Private Limited Co) Tovarystvo z obmezhenoyu vidpovidanistyn
Open (Public) Joint Stock Co Vidkryte aktsionerne tovazystvo
Closed (Private) Joint Stock Co Zakryte aktsionerne tovazystvo
State Owned Co Derzhavme pidpryemstvo
General Partnership Povne tovarystvo
Limited Partnership Comandytne tovarystvo

 

  Name
Address
Principals
Reg Date
Number
Start Date
Capital
(minimum)
Ownership
(minimum number)
Sole Proprietorship Yes n/a - 1
Private Co Yes Yes - 1
Limited Liability Co (Private Limited Co) Yes Yes 7,400 3
Open (Public) Joint Stock Co Yes Yes 92,500 2
Closed (Private) Joint Stock Co Yes Yes 92,500 2
State Owned Co Yes Yes - -
General Partnership Yes Yes - 2
Limited Partnership Yes Yes - 2

Legal filing requirements:

All companies but Sole Proprietorship in Ukraine are required to submit financial statements. Public Companies are required to publish their annual reports. Public Companies annual reports (Open Joint Stock Companies) for previous year should be published up to 30 September .

It is not compulsory for any other company types registered in Ukraine to publish financial statements but statements are provided to official Statistics Offices. About 80% of reports consist of financial data.

D&B Business Information Report - data sources and data elements:

Here is a breakdown of information available in Ukraine and where this information is obtained from.

State Registry Office:

  • registration data (registration number, date of registration, legal form, principals, line of business)

State Security and stock Exchange Commission:

  • annual reports (registration details, 5% shareholders, principals details, business description, B/S, P/L, cash flow report, etc.)

State Statistics Office:

  • financial statement, foreign trade details, volumes of production of goods and materials, car & trucks availability

Supreme Economics Court:

  • initiation and current statement of bankruptcy cases

Direct telephone interview:

  • activity/market territory
  • client type & number
  • premises/branches/divisions/employees
  • affiliations
  • principals' antecedents
  • expansion plans
  • balance sheets/profit & loss/projected sales

Business publications and news clippings:

  • news articles concerning the subject company and its shareholders
  • detrimental information regarding protested bills, uncovered cheques, bankruptcies, legal suits and charges are publicly available through the Government Gazette publication and through local press

All publicly available data is collected and verified from each of the above data sources by our locally positioned D&B Correspondent for each Business Information Report request received.

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Should you require any further information or have any questions, please contact your local Customer Service Centre.

Business Information Report enquiries which are placed with D&B's Emerging Markets Centre should always contain the below details. Unfortunately, enquiries without the below information have a much higher chance of being returned as an Unable To Locate Report. This is simply due to the fact that data sources in the Emerging Markets are not as sophisticated as those in Western Europe.

  • Full Company Name
  • Full Head Quarters Address (street, town, country)
  • Telephone Number
  • Fax Number

Any additional information such as a contact name or line of business would also help to locate the subject of your enquiry.