Shuvar Market in Lvov: the largest wholesale fruit & vegetable market of Ukraine
Ukraine
Wednesday 11 June 2008
According to estimations done by the analysts of CIS fruit & vegetable business weekly "Fruit-Inform", SHUVAR fruit & vegetable market in Lvov sold the largest volumes of fruit and vegetables in 2007. The experts evaluated the product flows of all major fruit and vegetables, including the imported products; they estimated the share of SHUVAR market to be equal to 4.6% in the natural terms in the all-Ukrainian trade of fruit and vegetables. Please compare: according to estimations of "Fruit-Inform" analysts, the share of all supermarket chains of Ukraine in the fruit and vegetable trade does not exceed 20%.
According to Andriy Yarmak, the head of "Fruit-Inform" project, the great share of SHUVAR market in the all-national fruit & vegetable trade is explained by the thoughtful strategy of the market development with the account to the experience accumulated by the wholesale markets of the other countries, and, the specifics of the region. This is actually the unique modern wholesale market of Ukraine which provides the whole complex of services to its clients. In addition to vegetables and fruit, the increasing volumes of meat, fish and other food products are sold through the market. Talking about the scale of the flowers sales, this market is steadily occupying the leading positions in the country.
We'd also like to point out that the share of the market in the regional fruit & vegetable trade is even higher; "Fruit-Inform" analysts estimate this share to be worth to 17.7% in 2007. In other words, this market hosts almost each fifth kilo of fruit and vegetables, sold in Lvovskaya, Zakarpatskaya, Volynskaya, Ternopolskaya, Ivano-Frankovskaya and Rovenskaya regions. "Shuvar" company continues to actively invest to the development of the infrastructure of the product market, which is created in the innovative format of the "regional agrarian center". The specialists expect the sales volumes to significantly increase in 2008. As of today, many large players of the wholesale fruit and vegetable market have already been represented on market; the national and international supermarket chains show a steady interest to the location of their logistics platforms and distribution centers on the territory of the market.
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According to Andriy Yarmak, the head of "Fruit-Inform" project, the great share of SHUVAR market in the all-national fruit & vegetable trade is explained by the thoughtful strategy of the market development with the account to the experience accumulated by the wholesale markets of the other countries, and, the specifics of the region. This is actually the unique modern wholesale market of Ukraine which provides the whole complex of services to its clients. In addition to vegetables and fruit, the increasing volumes of meat, fish and other food products are sold through the market. Talking about the scale of the flowers sales, this market is steadily occupying the leading positions in the country.
We'd also like to point out that the share of the market in the regional fruit & vegetable trade is even higher; "Fruit-Inform" analysts estimate this share to be worth to 17.7% in 2007. In other words, this market hosts almost each fifth kilo of fruit and vegetables, sold in Lvovskaya, Zakarpatskaya, Volynskaya, Ternopolskaya, Ivano-Frankovskaya and Rovenskaya regions. "Shuvar" company continues to actively invest to the development of the infrastructure of the product market, which is created in the innovative format of the "regional agrarian center". The specialists expect the sales volumes to significantly increase in 2008. As of today, many large players of the wholesale fruit and vegetable market have already been represented on market; the national and international supermarket chains show a steady interest to the location of their logistics platforms and distribution centers on the territory of the market.
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