OREANDA-NEWS. On 04 May 2008 was announced, that ASTARTA Holding N.V. СЕО Viktor Ivanchyk with a team of company's managers participated in the Concorde Capital fourth annual Conference "Bullying the Bears" in Kyiv 24-25 April, 2008.

The invitees of the event included Ukrainian political elite, top management of Ukrainian financial and industrial groups, and representatives of global investment funds such as Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Merrill Lynch. The conference was opened with comments by Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's President, Petro Poroshenko, Chairman of Supervisory Council of the National Bank of Ukraine, and Sergiy Tigipko, Co-Chairman of Investors Council under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

According to organizers of the event,  this year?s conference theme, Bullying the Bears, reflects Concorde Capital?s strategic outlook for the outperformance of Ukrainian investments in 2008 despite the bearish market prevailing globally.

During the Conference ASTARTA management hold 16 one-on-one meetings with investment funds highlighting the development of the Ukrainian agricultural  market and ASTARTA performance in 4th quarter of 2007 (see http://www.astartakiev.com/?id=1057 for ASTARTA HOLDING N.V. Report of the Board of Directors for the three months ended December 31, 2007). The meetings with investment funds demonstrated strong interest by the foreign investors in the Ukrainian agricultural market with its unique development tempo and potential.