The number of potential investors in Lviv grew by three times compared to 2011 after the city hosted Euro-2012.
As the press service of Lviv city council reported, head of Lviv City Council’s foreign economic relations and investment department Serhiy Kyral gave the number at a press conference on Tuesday.
“The events to promote tourism played a very important role, the culmination of which was Euro-2012. Over the last half of the year, we started to receive a relatively large number of inquiries from potential investors, in major in two spheres: IT and manufacturing. There was arise of about three times compared to 2010 and 2011,” he said.
The foreign relations department is now in talks with six companies, predominantly from the IT and outsourcing spheres.
According to Kyral, at the beginning of January 2013, 725 enterprises with the foreign capital worked in Lviv. Over the last year 145 such enterprises opened. Poland, Austria and Cyprus make the major investments in the Lviv economy.
