18 Dec 2009 07:00
X5 REDEEMS PATERSON BONDS
Moscow, 18 December 2009 - X5 Retail Group N.V. ("Company"), Russia's largest retailer in terms of sales
(LSE ticker: "FIVE"), today announced that it has fully redeemed Paterson-Invest corporate ruble bonds. The redemption amount totaled RUR 1,386.6 million, which includes RUR 386.6 million of technical redemption of bonds, previously purchased from the market by another company of Paterson Group. X5 has also paid coupon on Paterson-Invest bonds in the amount of RUR 43.2 million.
For reference:
* Non-convertible interest-bearing RUR-denominated corporate bond issue, registration #№4-01-36201-R as at 12 October 2006. Par value of the issue was RUR 2 billion - 2,000,000 bonds at RUR 1,000 par each. On 20 June 2008, in accordance with the put option, Paterson-Invest redeemed RUR 613.4 billion worth of bonds, while earlier another company of Paterson Group purchased RUR 386.6 worth of bonds.
X5 completed the acquisition of Paterson supermarket chain on 4 December 2009. For additional information regarding this transaction please see X5 Retail Group press releases dated 25 November and 4 December 2009. These press releases are available on our website at www.x5.ru.
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Anna Kareva IR Director Tel.: +7 (495) 980-2729, ext. 22 216 e-mail: anna.kareva@x5.ru | Maxim Trapeznikov Head of PR Department Tel.: +7 (495) 662-8888, ext. 31 262 e-mail: maxim.trapeznikov@x5.ru
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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 September 2009, X5 had 1,217 Company-managed stores located in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions of European Russia, Urals and Ukraine, including 952 soft discount stores, 210 supermarkets and 55 hypermarkets.
As at 30 September 2009, X5's franchisees operated 586 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 nine months 2009 X5's net sales totalled USD 6,081 mln, EBITDA reached USD 509 mln, and net profit amounted to USD 121 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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