Business news

Vitebsk to host international investment forum on 19-20 March
The center will hold the 12th edition of the Innovations. Investments. Prospects forum on 19-20 March...

Brest Oblast companies to partake in Poland’s BUDMA 2015 expo
The Brest delegation will comprise businessmen and representatives of the oblast big companies: Granit, Berezastroimaterialy, WoodPlace, Brest High-Voltage Power Lines and other companies...

Belarusian-Azerbaijani business forum due in Baku 13 March
Taking part in the forum will be 14 Belarusian companies including the Minsk Free Economic Zone, OAO Gomelstroymaterialy, Mogilev Carriage Works, Brest Meat-Packing Plant, Modum cosmetics producer...

Belarusian Keramin to up export to European Union by 40-50% in 2015
“We started working hard to diversify target markets in 2014. We successfully cooperate with Czechia, Baltic states, Hungary, and Serbia"...

BelAZ to ship 13 mine dump trucks to Bulgaria in 2015
Bulgaria’s largest ore mining and processing factories Assarel-Medet and Ellatzite-Med already use 55 BelAZ trucks to mine copper ore in the Panagyurishte area...

Roscosmos, NASB to develop new satellite
Belarus is a space power because the country has a satellite of its own. Shots taken by the Belarusian satellite are used by eleven ministries and agencies of Belarus...

London’s Continent Finance Holding to invest €500m in Belarus’ economy
Belarus is the sixth country chosen by Continent Finance for direct investment after England, Poland, Spain, Russia and Israel...

Key operations for Belarusian nuclear station construction in 2015 outlined
According to Yuri Pustovoi, director of the Belarusian representative office of AO NIAEP, they intend to spend 71% more money on the project in 2015 in comparison with 2014...

Belarus, Israel to expand financial and investment cooperation
Such an agreement was reached during the talks which took place during the working visit of Aide to the President of the Republic of Belarus Vsevolod Yanchevsky to the State of Israel on 2-3 March...

Japan’s Itochu Corporation seeks cooperation with Mogilev Mogotex
The first meeting with representatives of the Japanese company took place at Heimetextil 2015 expo in Frankfurt am Main in early 2015. The representatives of the Japanese holding company showed interest in the Belarusian textile...

Negotiations on Italian industrial cluster in Belarusian free economic zone to resume
Vladimir Semashko remarked that Italy has traditionally been one of Belarus’ main trade partners among non-CIS states...

Belarus-Italy commission on economic cooperation to sit in January 2016
According to the official, Italy is an important trade and economic partner for Belarus. Last year the bilateral trade hit the record-high $2.2 billion...

Belarus' exports to Czech Republic hit record high in 2014
“In 2014 Belarus posted its best economic achievements in cooperation with the Czech Republic, in particular in the export of Belarusian goods, notwithstanding oil products and fertilizers”...

Businessmen from Belarus, Iran to intensify cooperation
The Belarusian delegation is led by First Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Alexander Nakhayenko...

Financial Literacy Week in Belarus on 9-17 March
The Financial Literacy Week will begin with the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange that will arrange a trade opening ceremony involving children on 9 March...

Brazil’s Ceara interested in Belarusian tractors, petrochemical products
As part of the working trip to Ceara’s capital Fortaleza, Leonid Krupets also met with senior officials of the Federation of Industries of the State of Ceara...

Brest Oblast presents its economic potential in Stavropol Krai
The program of the Days comprised talks and business matchmaking sessions between economic entities of the Belarusian and Russian regions...

Belarus, Rastelli Foods Group mull over Belarusian beef supplies to Middle East
Three months ago Rastelli Foods Group signed a business agreement with the Grodno Meat Processing Plant to jointly advance Belarusian beef products to third countries...

Brest Oblast to strengthen cooperation with Russia’s Udmurtia
"Udmurtia’s share in the total export of Brest Oblast to Russia is not big. However, I am sure that we have good prospects. We will organize meetings that will bring results"...

Variable-gauge rapid train presented in Brest
A conference took place in Brest on 25-26 February to discuss the operation of the gauge switch device and the technical demonstration of the Talgo train that will enable passenger service between Belarus and Europe in the future...