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The Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) selected a winner in the tender for the asset manager of the IDS Ukraine group – one of the largest bottled water producers in Ukraine, which includes the Morshynska and Myrhorodska brands.
This is stated in the information disclosure protocol dated 23 September.
According to the published information, the winner was LLC “Legal Bureau “Prioritas”.
Recall that on 10 July a repeat second stage of the selection for an asset manager of the IDS Ukraine group was announced. The following proposals were submitted: LLC “KUA “Ukrkapital” – 0,01% (percentage of the asset’s income the manager proposes to receive), LLC “Legal Bureau “Prioritas” – 0,9%, LLC “Alliance D” (ultimate beneficiaries – Ruslan Shostak and Valeriy Kiptik, who control the national supermarket chain VARUS) – 1%, LLC “KUA “Ready-Invest” – 5%, LLC Meat Processing Plant “Yuvileynyi” – 10%.
On 14 September LLC “KUA “Ukrkapital” was disqualified for failing to justify an abnormally low price. Thus the next most advantageous proposal was the bid from LLC “Legal Bureau “Prioritas”.
According to the YouControl service, this company was founded in November 2013 by Zhanna Yefremova, who is its director (and sole employee as of 31 December 2023). The authorized capital of Prioritas is 1000 UAH.
Previously, lawyer Andriy Potemkin wrote in a column for Economic Truth that “Prioritas” submitted a fictitious tender dossier. “Instead of the required three years of experience managing large industrial complexes, the participant provided a lease agreement for one printer, a desk, and two laptops, and in other contracts was actually a tenant (not the lessor) of its own office.
Moreover, the documents uploaded to the Prozorro system show signs of official forgery: an agreement dated 2022 refers to acts from 2027, and a contract from December 2024 relies on a document that will only appear in January 2025…”
In addition, the applicant is financially incapable: its authorized capital is 1 000 UAH; according to OpenDataBot, net profit for 2025 year amounted to 8 400 UAH; the firm is registered at a residential apartment; and all additional capital consists of two used Apple computers. This company is a priori unable to obtain the required bank guarantee for 101,1 million UAH,” the lawyer wrote.
IDS Ukraine is a bottled water producer founded in 1996. Its brand portfolio includes Morshynska, Myrhorodska, Alaska, and Aqua Life. The company controls over 40% of the Ukrainian bottled water market, by its estimates.
The group employs approximately 3000 people, its net asset value is 4 billion UAH. Consolidated revenue of IDS Ukraine in 2025 was 7,4 billion UAH compared to 6,9 billion UAH a year earlier.
Recall:
In May ARMA announced a tender to select a manager for the assets of the IDS Ukraine group.
A court as early as 2022 year seized the shares and funds of Morshynska, which belonged to Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman. He was a co-owner of IDS Ukraine.
Following ARMA’s competition in March 2023, LLC “Karpatski Mineralni Vody” became the manager of Morshynska; it owns the Karpatska Dzherelna trademark.
In April 2025 ARMA terminated the contract with the manager of the seized LLC “Morshynska” — LLC “Karpatski Mineralni Vody”.
In October ARMA reported that it had resolved the long and convoluted situation around the seized corporate rights of the IDS Ukraine group, and that a tender would be announced soon.
In November 2025 ARMA announced on Prozorro a tender to determine a manager for the IDS Ukraine group of companies, which it later canceled. // Economic Truth
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