Baltic Beverages Invest AB (BBI, Sweden) will buy 12.583 million shares of PrJSC Carlsberg Ukraine (Zaporizhia), one of the largest brewing companies of Ukraine, within the framework of squeeze-out for UAH 14.7 per share.
According to the report in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, this price is defined as the market value of shares as of March 25, 2019. Thus, the total amount of the repurchase of 12.6 million shares of Carlsberg (1.2% of the total number of shares) will be about UAH 185 million.
As reported, Baltic Beverages Invest AB at the end of March 2019 announced its intention to exercise the right to compulsory redemption of shares from the minority shareholders of PrJSC Carlsberg Ukraine.
Carlsberg Ukraine in 2018 increased its net profit by 1.5 times compared with 2017, to UAH 1.634 billion.
Carlsberg Ukraine is part of Carlsberg Group, one of the leading brewing groups in the world, whose products are sold in more than 150 countries.
Carlsberg Group in Ukraine includes three breweries in Zaporizhia, Kyiv, and Lviv.