13th Feb 2014 10:00
OJSC PHOSAGRO - PhosAgro Credit Ratings ConfirmedOJSC PHOSAGRO - PhosAgro Credit Ratings Confirmed
PR Newswire
London, February 13
For Immediate Release 13 February 2014 PhosAgro Credit Ratings Confirmed Moscow - PhosAgro ("the Company") (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of theworld's leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers,announces that Moody's Investor Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratingshave all confirmed the Company's credit ratings and "Stable" outlooks. Moody's Investor ServiceRating/Outlook: Baa3 / Stable Standard & Poor'sRating/Outlook: BBB- / Stable Fitch RatingsRating / Outlook: BB+ / Stable Notes to Editors PhosAgro is a leading global vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizerproducer. The Group focuses on the production of phosphate-based fertilizers,feed phosphate and high-grade phosphate rock (with P2O5 content of not lessthan 39 percent), as well as ammonia and nitrogen-based fertilizers. The Group is the largest phosphate-based fertilizer producer in Europe, thelargest producer of high-grade phosphate rock worldwide and the second largestMAP/DAP producer in the world (excluding China), according to Fertecon.PhosAgro is also a leading producer of MCP feed phosphates in Europe, and theonly producer in Russia. PhosAgro has 2.1 billion tonnes of resources (according to JORC) of highquality apatite-nepheline ore, representing over 75 years of production. TheGroup also controls substantial Al2O3 resources and has 41% of Russia's rareearth oxides resources according to the G.P. Luzin Institute of EconomicProblems of the Kolskiy Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences,2010). The Group's mines and phosphate rock production facilities are located in themountainous areas of the Kola Peninsula in the Murmansk region of northwestRussia, whereas its fertilizer and feed phosphate production assets are locatednear the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region and near the city ofBalakovo in the Saratov region of southwest part of European Russia. PhosAgro's2012 IFRS revenue was over USD 3.4 bln and EBITDA was USD 1.1 bln. TheСompany's net debt/EBITDA ratio was 0.77 at 31 December 2012.
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