Winner Group Ukraine

Winner Group Ukraine is an official importer of Ford, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche and Bentley brands.

The owners: American of Ukrainian origin John (Ivan) Hynansky and his children Alexandra Hynansky Vadas, Michael John Hynansky and Leah Ksenia Hynansky. All are US citizens.

The company revenue in 2018 was UAH 7.07 billion. Since 1992, Winner has imported to Ukraine more than 130,000 cars and has been paid more than $1.4 billion to the Ukrainian budget.

The company has over 700 employees. It offers cars, spare parts, service and world-class customer experience in more than 50 dealerships and service partner centers in Ukraine, including in the largest Bentley showroom in Europe. The company's market share of Jaguar Land Rover in Europe is 25%.

Apart from selling cars, Winner is also involved in real estate business.

• Hynansky's parents Theodore and Kateryna (they had a surname Glinyansky) were originally from Lodin, Lviv region. Now, it is the territory of Poland. Before the war, they moved to Germany, where the founder of Winner was born. In 1949, they moved to the United States, first to Maryland, then they bought a house in Wilmington, Delaware.
• According to John Hynansky, during the Wimbledon championship in 1991, one of FORD's managers suggested Hynansky to represent the brand in Ukraine. And a year later, Winner was already selling cars in Kyiv and in western Ukraine.

• In 2012, American media outraged that the Federal Government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation gave $20 million loan to Winner Import Ukraine to expand its automobile business, and construct and operate Winner AutoCity. They said that instead of helping their own business, the taxpayers fund allocates huge money for the construction of a VIP car dealership in Ukraine. Moreover, the loan was provided to Hynansky, an old friend of US Vice President John Biden.
• In 2019, the Politiko website published documents that showed that Vice President Joe Biden's younger brother James borrowed $2.5 million from Hynansky.

'There is no indication that the loan influenced Joe Biden’s official actions, but it furthers a decades-long pattern by which relatives of the former vice president have leaned on his political allies for money and otherwise benefited financially from the Biden name', — stated the American journalists.

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• John started selling cars at the age of 21, and when he was 32, he opened his first company.

'When founding our company here in Ukraine, he constantly emphasized that we came here not just to make money. We are part of Ukraine,' his business partners tell journalists.

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• According to the media, in the early 1990s, when the Ukrainian government did not have money to buy a building for the Ukrainian consulate in New York, it was Hynansky who financed this purchase.
• The company helped the ATO: the military was provided with four minibuses.
• In 2018, Hynansky donated two new CCT ambulances to the neonatal center of the Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital. Each car cost UAH 3 million and was equipped with the most modern German and American facilities to help save premature babies.
• In early 2020, Ukrainian celebrities raised money to restore the house of the composer Mykola Leontovych. Among the benefactors, there is also the name of the American philanthropist.