Lutsk company "Korporatsiya PAKKO" will open about 20 "Vopak" supermarkets in Ukraine in 2005, namely in Volyn, Rivne, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia oblasts.\n\n\nThe first supermarket from the announced twenty opened on February 1 in Lviv. Currently, the "PAKKO" corporation manages nine PAKKO cash&carry small-wholesale self-service stores and 15 "Vopak" supermarkets.\n\n\nReference: the Ukrainian-Slovak closed joint-stock company "Volynpak", created in 1996 in Lutsk, opened the first PAKKO small-wholesale store in Rivne in 1999, and the "Vopak" supermarket in Lutsk in 2001. In addition to developing the PAKKO and "Vopak" retail chain, "Volynpak" is also engaged in packaging various cereals and flour, as well as distribution of trademarks, including Nestle, "Mivina", "Nemirov", "Roshen", Start, "Obolon", "Slavutych". In 2003, "Volynpak" registered its own trademark - "Khochu shche", under which dried fruits, cereals, nuts, flour and semi-finished products are packaged.