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An insight into the company Winner reveals an illuminating footnote to the history of its appearance in Ukraine. During a Wimbledon championship in 1991 one of Ford's managers suggested Ivan Hynansky, the owner of dealerships known under the style of Winner in Delaware and Pennsylvania going into a new business in Ukraine. Hynansky said he was not quite interested in buying another firm but he liked the idea of helping Ford start a network of dealerships in Ukraine. Encouraged by this idea, Ivan Hynansky first came to Ukraine in 1992, shortly after the republic declared its independence. It was not long until he came to love the country of his origin (his parents were born in Ukraine but they quit the country in the late 30's).
At the end of 1992, Winner was designated as an authorized importer of Ford Motor Co. in Ukraine. In the same year Ford workshop was launched, which came to be the largest one in Ukraine at the time. It is back then that first realty was bought, which laid the foundations of our real estate business. Today it's one of strategic lines of our business.
1995 through 1998 we were an authorized importer for Mobil, Gates, Champion and Hoffman. However we sold out this business to our advantage because we wanted to hurl all our efforts into promoting Ford's brand name inside Ukraine.
In 1997, our construction outfit 'Winner Construction' was founded. The new firm built the first Ford's showroom in Ukraine in the same year. And in 1999, our company's business was marked by an important event - Winner came in for status of authorized importer of Volvo in Ukraine. It is by dint of hard work and an ongoing perseverance that Winner succeeded as one of the leading businesses on Ukrainian automobile market.
In 2004, Winner procured a few challenging tenders from the internationally known key manufacturers and became an authorized Ukrainian importer for Jaguar, Land Rover and Porsche after a while.