Turning a new page: IBcontacts becomes a holding company

KYIV, Ukraine - April 5, 2013 - PRLog -- On its third year anniversary, IBcontacts announces structuring of its business operations and establishment of a group of companies specializing in the development of international trade.

The accumulated experience and diverse professional expertise, as well as a wide portfolio of services based on the needs of Ukrainian and foreign clients, have provided the impetus for dividing the existing business practices into four separate specialized companies. At the same time, IBcontacts will become the managing company and focus its efforts on providing even better services to clients.

IBproject provides a full range of trade and export finance services: advising, project coordination, preparation of project documentation and holding of corporate trainings in the field of international finance.

Credit rating agency IBrating specializes in assessing creditworthiness of companies and financial institutions in Ukraine and CIS countries, conducting market research and B2B services.

International Law Firm IBadviser provides support in raising export and trade finance, dispute resolution, restructuring and taxation.

IBpromo specializes in strategic communications, financial PR and IR. And is publisher of international magazine IBobserver and organizer of international events in the field of international finance and trade development.

“Over the three years of its operations, IBcontacts has become a reputable supplier of quality services in several business directions in the field of international trade, which are integrated under the common customer service concept based on the one-stop-shop principle: international financing, legal support, risk management, financial PR and IR,” Managing Director Kateryna Barabash commented on the business structuring plans. “At the same time, along with the rapid growth of the company, we’ve seen the development of our business practices that have long been operating quite independently and, therefore, need to be separated into respective companies with clear specialization headed by experienced managers of the existing practices.

It will allow us to effectively and professionally develop each of the four directions, and jointly implement complex projects, providing even better services to our customers, including Ukrainian and foreign trade and industrial companies, export credit agencies, credit insurance and financing organizations, and banks”.

IBcontacts cooperates with more than 23 insurance and financing organizations in 43 countries, and holds a unique status of authorized company for conducting credit research and assigning credit ratings to companies in Ukraine and CIS countries for 11 foreign export credit agencies, private insurance corporations and financial organizations.

IBcontacts is a member of the Association of Executives in Finance, Credit and International Business (FCIB) and Federation of Business Information Service (FEBIS).

IBcontacts clients are trade and manufacturing companies such as confectionary factory ZhL, KSG Agro, Landgut group of companies (‘From Good Chicken’ ТМ), Vikoil Ltd Geophysical Service Company, Energomashspetsstal Private joint stock company, Ergopack (‘Melochi Zhizni’ ТМ), VARUS supermarkets, The Meat Processing and Packing Factory of Enakievo, International Group of Seafood (‘Flagman’ ТМ), etc., export credit agencies, credit insurance corporations and financing organizations, including Euler Hermes (Germany), Turkeximbank (Turkey), K-sure (Korea), KredEx (Estonia), HKO (Croatia), LCI (Lebanon), MEHIB (Hungary), GIEK (Norway), KazExportGarant (Kazakhstan) and many others.

If you have questions related to the content of this press release or require more information, please contact the Communications Department at IBcontacts: phone +38 044 359 02 00, email pr@ibcontacts.com.ua