Fora, LLC — is a Ukrainian national retail company that operates a chain of stores Fora (also called supermarket) and premium delicacy store Favore, operated by Fozzy Group. Its headquarters are located at Fozzy Fud in neighbourhood Lisky the of Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv. Company was founded by Volodymyr Kostelman in December 2002. Most of its stores are concentrated in the Kyiv metropolitan area. The stores are partially automated, with customers able to purchase products without being checked out by a cashier using a self-service checkout. History In 2002, the owners of Silpo, having bought shares from the labor collective, acquired a chain of 38 "Dnipryanka" delis. This made it possible not only to expand the Silpo chain, but also to make room for new Fora stores — a chain that began its operations in December of the same year. In 2005, Fora had 34 stores. In 2006, chain of stores near the home Fora had 70 stores across Ukraine. In the autumn of 2007, the Fozzy Group entered into an agreement with the company "BM-Trade" which received in 2006 of about $48 million revenue, which was 60% owned of the largest distributors of food products in the Baltic states — Sanitex, the rest — to individuals, citizens of Lithuania. Under the terms of the agreement, Bumi-market stores, which existed at that time 40 retail outlets in the "store at home" format with a total sales area of 15,600 m2 in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Zhytomyr regions, will become part of the Fora retail chain, and until at the end of 2008, they will operate as part of the chain under its sign. The deal was closed on October 18. The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but in the message published the day before, Ukrsibbank stated that the bank acted as a co-underwriter of the placement Fora bonds sold for ₴200 million, which will be directed to "the purchase of a similar retail chain". Experts believe that Fozzy Group overpaid for the purchase of the chain. Dragon Capital analyst Tamara Levchenko estimated Bumi-market at $30–35 million. In March 2008, Fozzy Group announced that it plans to open 15 stores Fora by the end of the year, and due to the crisis, from the statement published in September of the same year, it became known that only 8 stores Fora are planned to be opened by the end of