Vertex United
Vertex United is a Ukrainian business group owned by Borys Kaufman and Oleksandr Hranovskyi. It has a number of assets in hospitality, media business and finance.
Hotel business
Vertex Hotel Group manages hotel facilities: "Bristol", "Londonska" in Odesa and "President Hotel" in Kyiv.The Passage Hotel Complex came under the control of the group in 2003, when Passage CJSC was established, the shareholders of which were Ukrbudservice LLC and Clear Water Bay Hotels, both owned by Hranovskyi and Kaufman. Instead of the hotel building, which the city transferred to the statutory fund of the CJSC, it owned 35% of the shares. Kaufman and Hranovskyi, instead of 65% of the shares, had to spend $11 million over 3 years to complete the reconstruction of the complex.
Until 2013, investors did not begin reconstruction, this was explained by the financial crisis. In July 2013, the Odesa City Council decided to sell 24.6% of the remaining shares in the city to businessmen.