“McDonald’s has a special way of production. It links its production with sales system: if the issue is settled, it should come either from Russia or Turkey, logistics needs to be worked out, and in this case, some variation in price is possible, and decision will be made in McDonald’s head office, then they’ll make an offer. However, I think, there is an issue with royalty as well. Those, who should enter into a contractual relationship here through franchising, as McDonald’s organizers, they should also gain enough benefit, and upon some marketing surveys, there are some problems in this sector, volumes are not that big. I’m conscious that in the coming 1-2 years McDonald’s won’t appear in Armenia, if not policy decision,” Sukiasyan said.
This year, in summer season, Yerevan will offer more connections as many airlines operating flights to Yerevan have increased their flight frequencies and added more destinations. “Armenia” International Airports” CJSC made a survey among the air companies regarding the cost of round-trip tickets from Yerevan for the months of June-July 2016.
According to data published by the National Statistical Service of Armenia, brandy production volume reached 637.0 thousand liters in January, 2016 in Armenia, which is an increase of 4.4% against the same period in 2015. B24.am website informs about the aforementioned.
According to data published by the National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia, 682.8 million kWh was produced in Armenia in January, 2016. B24.am website informs that this is 5.2% rise as compared to January, 2015.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan introduced the newly appointed Minister Levon Yolyan to the staff of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources.
A.Chobanyan hesitated to answer to which extent anticipations have been a reality, reasoning that it’s early, “the period from late 2013 to 2016 is rather short in the field of aviation, on account of the fact, that global political shift has been recorded, which requires phase-to-phase implementation, and some factors impact implementation of this. It too early to speak of any results and assessments.”
Discussions of the draft Tax code chaired by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan went on at the Government on March 1 with the participation of the representatives of interested state agencies.
The Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport defined a special schedule for aircrafts, whereas daytime flights will be suspended from March 1 – July 1. The airport’s administration stated that the reason of suspending daytime flights is the reconstruction of the runway.
Like in 2015, growth in industry is totally conditioned by growth of mining. Thus, production of mining industry and exploitation of open-cast mines comprised AMD 19.2 billion in January of current year. It exceeds the indicator for 2015 by 75%.
Azerbaijan’s sudden economic collapse affected all sectors of the economy. Among them are the state enterprises such as “Azerenergy”, “Azerigas” and “Azercel”.
