18th Sep 2009 07:16
X5 undertakes technical steps to redeem outstanding Karusel Bonds
Amsterdam, 18 September 2009 - X5 Retail Group N.V., Russia's largest retailer in terms of sales (LSE ticker: "FIVE"), today announced that Karusel Finance, a fully controlled subsidiary of X5, has made technical steps to redeem its bond issue series 01*. Pursuant to the put option exercise in 2008, X5's fully controlled subsidiaries purchased from the market 2,987,393 of the 3,000,000 bonds originally issued. On the second put option exercise date of 17 September 2009, Karusel Finance made the legal transfer of these bonds from the other X5 entities and also purchased an additional 12,228 bonds from external bond holders. As a result, to date Karusel Finance has accumulated 2,999,621 bonds (of the total issue size of 3,000,000 bonds).
For reference:
* Non-convertible interest-bearing RUR-denominated corporate bond issue series 01. Par value of the issue is RUR 3 bln - 3,000,000 bonds at RUR 1,000 par each. X5 acquired this debt within the scope of Karusel hypermarket chain acquisition in June 2008.
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Anna Kareva IR Director Tel.: +7 (495) 980-2729, ext. 22 216 e-mail: [email protected] |
Maxim Trapeznikov Head of PR Department Tel.: +7 (495) 662-8888, ext. 31 262 e-mail: [email protected] |
Note to Editors:
X5 Retail Group N.V. is Russia's largest retailer in terms of sales. The Company was created as a result of a merger between Pyaterochka (soft discounter chain) and Perekrestok (supermarket chain) on 18 May 2006. In June 2008, X5 acquired Karusel hypermarket chain and substantially strengthened its position in hypermarket format.
As at 30 June 2009, X5 had 1,164 Company-managed stores located in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions of European Russia, Urals and Ukraine, including 900 soft discount stores, 211 supermarkets and 53 hypermarkets.
As at 30 June 2009, X5's franchisees operated 605 stores across Russia.
For the full year 2008, X5's net sales including acquired Karusel business on a pro-forma basis totalled USD 8,892 mln, EBITDA reached USD 803 mln, and net profit adjusted for non-cash goodwill impairment charge amounted to USD 112 mln.
For the first half 2009 X5's net sales totalled USD 3,978 mln, EBITDA reached USD 347 mln, and net profit amounted to USD 48 mln.
X5 Shareholder structure is as follows: Alfa Group - 47.9%, founders of Pyaterochka - 23.1%, X5 Management - 1.9%, treasury shares - 0.1%, free float - 27.0%.
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