28th Feb 2013 14:53
OJSC PHOSAGRO - PhosAgro Shares Admitted to A1 List of Moscow ExchangeOJSC PHOSAGRO - PhosAgro Shares Admitted to A1 List of Moscow Exchange
PR Newswire
London, February 28
PhosAgro Shares Admitted to A1 List of Moscow Exchange
Moscow - PhosAgro ("the Company") (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), a leadingglobal vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producer, announcesthat its shares have been admitted to A1 quotation list of the Moscow Exchange.
PhosAgro CEO Maxim Volkov said: "We are very pleased with the decision of theMoscow Exchange to admit our shares to the A1 quotation list. We consider thisas a confirmation of the fact that PhosAgro meets high standards for shareliquidity, transparency and corporate governance."
Admission to the A1 quotation list will help the Company to expand its investorbase to include pension savings managed by Russian non-state pension funds andindependent asset managers, as well as Russian insurance companies.
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+7 495 231 2747Irina Evstigneeva, Head of Corporate Finance and Investor RelationsTimur Belov, Press Officer M:Communications Sam [email protected]+44 (0) 20 7920 2356 Notes to EditorsPhosAgro is a leading global vertically integrated phosphate-based fertiliserproducer. The Group focuses on the production of phosphate-based fertilisers,feed phosphate and high-grade phosphate rock (with P2O5 content of not lessthan 39 percent), as well as ammonia and nitrogen-based fertilisers.
The Group is the largest phosphate-based fertiliser 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 fertiliser 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's2011 IFRS revenue was over USD 3.4 bln and EBITDA was USD 1.2 bln. The Сompany'snet debt/EBITDA ratio was 0.43 at 31 December 2011.
For further information on PhosAgro please visit: www.PhosAgro.com
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