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PhosAgro Increase PhosAgro-Cherepovets Tender Price

10th Apr 2014 16:05

OJSC PHOSAGRO - PhosAgro Increase PhosAgro-Cherepovets Tender Price

OJSC PHOSAGRO - PhosAgro Increase PhosAgro-Cherepovets Tender Price

PR Newswire

London, April 10

For Immediate Release 10 April 2014 PhosAgro Increases Price of Voluntary Tender Offer for PhosAgro-Cherepovets Shares Moscow - PhosAgro ("the Company") (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of theworld's leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers,announces that it has increased the price of its voluntary tender offer for thepurchase of PhosAgro-Cherepovets shares from RUB 40.9 to RUB 44.0 per ordinaryshare. The Company made this decision due to improving mineral fertilizers marketconditions. The VTB Bank guarantee for obligations arising as a result of thetender has likewise been increased from RUB 10.1 billion to RUB 10.8 billion.The voluntary tender offer is valid through 6 May 2014. PhosAgro and affiliatedparties currently hold 87.77% of PhosAgro-Cherepovets shares. PhosAgro plans to complete the consolidation of its ownership inPhosAgro-Cherepovets by the end of 2014. For further information please contact: OJSC PhosAgro Irina Evstigneeva, Head of Corporate Finance and Investor [email protected]+7 495 231 3115 Timur Belov, Press Officer+7 495 232 9689 EM Sam [email protected]+44 7554 993 032+7 916 306 6112 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. The Сompany's net debt/EBITDA ratio was 0.77 at 31 December 2012.

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