The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has approved an application of China’s Bohai Commodity Exchange (BOCE) to acquire a stake in the share capital of PJSC PFTS Stock Exchange (Kyiv), the press service of the committee has told Interfax-Ukraine. As reported, BOCE early May 2018 asked the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for preliminary conclusions on the acquisition of over 25% of shares in PFTS. The application was returned, as information was not disclosed in a proper way. Late September, the Chinese exchange repeatedly submitted the documents.
PFTS Stock Exchange is one of the oldest in the Ukrainian stock market. In 2017, the volume of exchange contracts on the PFTS amounted to UAH 64.34 billion, and this indicator was less only compared with the Perspectiva stock exchange (UAH 127.43 billion), but it is more than at the Ukrainian Exchange (UAH 13.41 billion). The main volume of trading fell on government bonds – UAH 57.99 billion, while the turnover of shares amounted to UAH 3.16 billion, bonds of enterprises – UAH 3.19 billion.
PFTS in 2017 received a net profit of UAH 0.82 million against a net loss of UAH 1.78 million a year earlier, increasing revenues by 61.5%, to UAH 9.45 million.
Its main shareholders are Parvana Ltd. with 8.9034% of shares, Crooxton Limited – 9.0596%, Primeview Ltd. – 8.4973%, Dakal Ltd. – 9.372% and Boline Ltd. – 9, 2158%, which beneficiaries are unknown.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) has allowed Sumitomo, a Japanese corporation, to acquire a 51% stake in British-based Oscar Agro Limited, which owns Spektr-Agro and Spektr-Agrotekhnika (both based in Obukhiv, Kyiv region). “Oscar Agro is a company in the UK that was created for this project. Oscar Agro owns 100% of the shares of Spektr-Agro and Spektr-Agrotekhnika, while Sumitomo will acquire 51% of the shares of Oscar Agro,” Sumitomo Corporation told Interfax -Ukraine.
The AMC also gave permission to Ihor Lavreniuk, Vasyl Skarlat and Volodymyr Lobach (Spektr-Agro and Spektr-Agrotekhnika) and Sumitomo Corporation for concerted actions in the form of restricting competitive behavior and refusing to lure employees for five years.
Spektr-Agro LLC was founded in 2009. It currently operates throughout Ukraine, distributes plant protection products, fertilizers, seeds and agricultural equipment for more than 3,500 agricultural producers in the country.
Sumitomo Group is one of the largest Japanese corporations. It includes companies in the financial sector, engineering, electrical industry, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, etc.
ANTIMONOPOLY COMMITTEE, SPEKTR-AGRO COMPANY, STAKE, SUMITOMO
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) in order to prevent monopolization of commodity markets has begun consideration of a number of concentration cases that will lead to the Rozetka marketplace owners’ gaining control over the EVO marketplaces.
In particular, the AMC is investigating the legitimacy of the acquisition by Temania Enterprises Ltd (Limassol, Cyprus) of shares in the charter capital of Uaprom and Aukro Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine), Tiu.ru (Russia), Project Dealbay (Belarus), and Satu.kz Advertising Agency (Kazakhstan), which will provide it with over 50% of the voting shares on the companies’ board.
The AMC said as a result of these concentrations the buyer (who owns the Rozetka.ua online trading platform) will gain control over the marketplaces of the acquired objects, namely Prom.ua, Bigl.ua, Shafa.ua, Crafta.ua, Kabanchik.net, Zakupki.prom.ua, Satu.kz, Deal.by, etc.
The committee notes these cases are open for an in-depth study of the impact of concentration on the e-commerce markets, in particular the field of providing online services for trade in goods/services.
As reported, the Rozetka online supermarket and EVO group of companies plan to merge. As a result of the planned deal, Rozetka will buy out Naspers’ share in EVO, while the share of the EVO founders will be transformed into a share in the merged company.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has approved the purchase of a controlling stake in Dymerka Solar Poland (Poland) by ACCIONA Energia Global (Poland, the subsidiary of the eponymous company in Spain), the press service of the committee has reported.
Dymerka Solar Poland was registered to implement a project of UDP developing group (Kyiv) to expand the capacity of Dymerka solar power plant (Kyiv region) from 6 MW to 57.6 MW.
As reported, UDP from UFuture investment group has arranged a joint project to expand Dymerka solar power plant with Spain’s ACCIONA Energia Global. It is planned that the Spanish company will invest EUR 54.7 million.
Majority shareholder of UDP is Ukrainian businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky.
ACCIONA ENERGIA'S, ANTIMONOPOLY COMMITTEE, PROJECT, SOLAR POWER PLANT, UDP
