Amazon Poland does not pay workers on time and does not respect rules on working hours, the country’s labour inspectorate (PIP) has found. Chief labour inspector Wiesław...
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With a staff of 10 people in Kyiv and three in London, Vimes is a boutique consultancy that connects British and EU VCs and investors with Ukrainian tech and IT start...
Swedish furniture giant IKEA has opened its first store in Riga, Latvia. The new 34,500 sq m store sits on a 10 hectare site, in which IKEA have invested over 50 million...
Wizz Air, the largest airline in emerging Europe, announced on August 30 that it will further expand its operations in Ukraine by launching five new...
Polish oil refiner and petrol retailer PKN Orlen looks set to take full control of the Czech firm Unipetrol after the Unipetrol board agreed on August 28 to approve a...
A Russian ban on the import of Moldovan wine has pushed the country to promote its wares, with increasing success, elsewhere.
Lithuanian organic food producer Auga Group has completed a successful public offering on the Baltic Main List of Nasdaq Vilnius. As part of the offering, Auga Group...
Private equity investment in CEE reached 3.5 billion euros in 2017, a 113 per cent year-on-year increase and a record high level for the region, new data from Invest...
Banca Transilvania (BT) – whose largest shareholder is the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) – has overtaken Banca Comercială...
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, known as Moneyval, states in a new...
“Slovenia needs a comprehensive tax reform that rebalances the tax mix away from employee social security contributions (SSCs) towards personal income tax (PIT) and less...
Swedish clothing brand H&M has become the latest big name in retail to open a store in Ukraine. Located in the 140,000 sq m Lavina Mall in Kyiv, H&M Ukraine...
