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KYIV. The McDonald's-Ukrayina company is on track to open
six new restaurants in Ukraine, bringing its total investment to
US$ 82 million, a Finport.net report says.
According to the company's purchases director Viktor Eidemiller,
McDonald's present goal is to bring the share of inputs supplied by
Ukrainian producers from 40% in 2001 to 60% this year. This will
be done by starting its own production of meat products which are
currently imported from Russia.
NOTE: McDonald's-Ukrayina was started and supported by the
McDonald's organization in Vienna, Austria. The original plan
announced a few years ago was to make an initial investment in
Ukraine of $ 100 million and open 100 restaurants. This is one
company that has stayed the course and kept moving rapidly ahead
in spite of the political, governmental and economic problems faced
by private for-profit companies in Ukraine. They jumped into the
market and never looked back.
McDonald's has picked great locations, mostly near METRO
stops, built very modern facilities and have trained thousands
and thousands of young people in sales, marketing and serving
customers first and quickly..skills that were severely lacking in
Soviet Ukraine. McDonald's have special rooms for birthday
parties and they are totally booked every Saturday and Sunday.
Their long run goal is to source everything they use in Ukraine
to be sources from within Ukraine that is at all possible.
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