KYIV/LONDON ¨C German supermarket chain Metro and its 3,400 employees in Ukraine have worked hard to get their business back to where it was before Russia¡¯s full-scale invasion two years ago.
After a sales slump of 10.4% in 2022 ¡ª when the overall economy collapsed by almost a third as war caused havoc ¡ª revenue rebounded by almost the same amount last year as domestic consumption recovered.
Now Metro faces a new test, as protests by Polish farmers blockading the borders with Ukraine disrupt supplies coming in ¡ª one of several challenges foreign and domestic firms face as they navigate doing business in a country at war.
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