On February 28, 2018, the annual General Meeting of the Association “Ukrainian Union of Lessors” was held in which leading leasing companies of Ukraine took part.
The Director of the Association, Marina Massich, informed the participants about the main achievements of the Association in 2017 and described the main directions of work in 2018, among which the fruitful cooperation with the USAID / FST Project is key to the development of the leasing market in Ukraine, the introduction of a nationwide leasing company licensing and regulatory improvement bases for leasing services.
Representatives of the Association presented the rating of leasing companies – members of the Association “Ukrainian Uion of Lessors”, which, in the wake of 2017, became leaders in the sphere of automobile leasing and leasing of agricultural machinery in Ukraine.
So, the leaders in the number of new cars sold for leasing steel:
1. OTP Leasing – 1,615 cars, which makes 27,4% of the total volume of cars sold by the companies – members of the Association.
2. “ULF-Finance” – 1,249 vehicles, which is 21.2% of the sample.
3. Porsche Leasing Ukraine – 1117 cars, representing 19% of the total volume.
It is important to note that the main subject of leasing in Ukraine, which occupies more than 70%, still remained road transport. The volume of leased cars in 2017 by the companies-members of the Association amounted to 5871 cars, which represents a growth compared with last year by 30%.
The indisputable leader in the field of agricultural machinery leasing in Ukraine was OTP Leasing, which leased 701 units of GG equipment to a total of nearly $ 50 million, representing more machinery and equipment than all 2016 members of the Association . Thus, it has realized 80% of the total amount of equipment leased by the member companies of the Association (the total amount of equipment is 880 units).