PJSC Kharkiv Tile Plant will allocate UAH 20 mln from its net profit for 2021 to pay dividends.
According to the company message in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSCSCM), the decision was taken by PJSC shareholders at the annual general meeting on April 27.
The dividends will amount to UAH 0.01 per common share. The payment period will be from May 12 till November 12, 2023.
At the same time it was decided not to pay dividends for the company in 2022, and to direct the profits earned last year to the restoration of fixed assets of PJSC.
At the meeting the shareholders re-elected Valentin Shevetovskiy as the head of the supervisory board, as well as the members of the board – Oleksiy Isayenko and Dmytro Salimonov – for a three-year term.
As reported, PJSC “Kharkiv Tile Plant” by the end of 2022 reduced the net profit in 11 times compared with the previous year – up to 6.4 million UAH, while in 2020 the profit was 72.5 million UAH, in 2019 – 94 million UAH.
The Kharkiv Tile Plant (KhPZ), the largest tile manufacturer in Ukraine, was commissioned in 1946. It is part of Golden Tile Ceramic Group (Kyiv), established in 2008, which also includes Shakhtobud Production Association LLC (Verolyubivka, Donetsk oblast), Maidan-Vilsky Quarry LLC, Maidan-Vilsky Refractories Plant LLC (both in Khmelnytsky oblast) and Golden Tile LLC (Kyiv, exclusive distributor of KhPZ).
The main shareholder of the company, according to the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market, is Golden Tile Ceramic Group LLC (98.4%) as of the fourth quarter of 2022. The ultimate beneficiary of KHP is Valentin Shevetovsky.
PJSC Kharkivenergosbyt, which is managed by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU), will pay 64.2 million UAH in dividends to the state for 2022, which is six times more than in 2021.
“This decision was made by the general meeting of shareholders of Kharkovenergosbyt on April 24, 2023. Payment of dividends will take place through the depository system of Ukraine,” – reported on the website of the FGIU.
According to the fund, the amount of net profit of “Kharkovenergosbyt” for 2022 amounted to 198 million UAH and according to the decision of the general meeting, it will be distributed as follows: 50% – is directed to the payment of dividends to shareholders, 10% – on the costs provided by the financial plan for 2023, 10% – transferred to the reserve capital and another 30% – in other funds of the company.
“Today the state owns 65% of the company. “Kharkovenergosbyt” supplies electricity to 1.25 million household consumers. Despite the difficult situation in Kharkiv and constant enemy fire, during 2022 the company supplied 2,213.7 thousand megawatt-hours of electricity to consumers,” – said the FGIU.
At the same time, because of late payments by consumers for electricity at the plant at the beginning of 2023, there were receivables of 3.46 billion UAH. In addition to the population among the largest debtors are utilities Kharkivvodokanal, Zhilkomservis and Kharkiv Metro.
“These debts prevent Kharkivenergosbyt to pay for electricity on time further down the chain. Therefore now the company together with the SPFU is working on an action plan that will change the situation for the better, “- summed up in the Fund.
The state, represented by the SPFU, owns 65% of PJSC Kharkivenergosbyt. Another 29.79% of shares were owned by Smart Holding of Vadim Novinsky.
In mid-January 2023, Smart Holding announced a change of ownership.
“As part of the restructuring, Smart Holding founder Vadim Novinsky decided to transfer the assets to a trust. Corresponding agreements Smart Trust and Step Trust were concluded in November 2022 and registered by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission,” – said in a message on the website of the holding.
Shareholders of agroholding Astarta will consider paying a dividend of EUR0.5 per share for 2022, worth EUR12.5 mln, the company said in a statement on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
According to the statement, the distribution of profits for the previous year will be discussed at the May 24 shareholder meeting, which will be held on April 19.
In addition, shareholders are expected to instruct the board to hold talks with the company’s current auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and its competitors, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche and Baker Tilly, and, depending on the outcome, appoint one of these firms as external auditor.
As reported, Astarta first paid a EUR12.155 million dividend in June 2021 based on its 2020 performance in the same amount as currently proposed – EUR0.5 per share. In the military year 2022, the company refused to pay them.
Agropromholding Astarta, the largest sugar producer in Ukraine, received EUR65.16 million in net profit in 2022, down 46.8% from 201.
Holding EBITDA last year decreased by 23.2% – to EUR154.77 mln, while revenues increased by 3.8% – to EUR510.07 mln.
Astarta shares rose 1 percent last Friday to PLN30.45 per share (about EUR6.6 per share).
“The company’s policy is to pay dividends at a level consistent with the Group’s growth and development plans, while maintaining a reasonable level of liquidity. The dividend policy will, however, be reviewed from time to time and the payment of any future dividends will actually be at the discretion of the general meeting of shareholders upon recommendation of the board of directors and taking into account various factors, including business prospects, future earnings, cash requirements, financial situation, expansion plans and Cyprus law requirements,” the company said in the dividend policy.
State-owned PrivatBank, the largest in the market, will pay dividends to the state budget in 2022 in the amount of 24 billion 158.37 million UAH, or 80% of net profit.
According to the report of the Ministry of Finance, the distribution of profits was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers at the meeting on April 28.
Net profit of PrivatBank for 2022 was UAH 30.198 billion, a decrease of 13.7% compared with 2021, in which the bank paid to the state budget UAH 28 billion in dividends, which also amounted to 80% of net profit.
Raiffeisen Bank is planning to send its profits for 2022 less dividends in the amount of UAH 1.572 billion to the bank’s reserve fund.
According to a report in the system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), the relevant decision will be considered at the remote gathering of the bank’s shareholders on April 28.
It is pointed out that the bank plans to deduct UAH 700 th from the profit for 2022 to pay dividends to the owners of the bank’s preferred shares before sending them to the reserve fund.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, Raiffeisen Bank on the size of assets as of January 1, 2023, was in 5th place (187.26 billion UAH) among 67 operating Ukrainian banks.
The Board of Directors of IDS Ukraine Group, which produces mineral water under Morshynska and Mirgorodska brands, decided not to accrue or pay dividends for 2022 and decided to direct all available funds to charitable purposes, the holding said in a press release on Wednesday.
“The company’s management and non-sanctioned shareholders fully share the state’s just desire to protect the economy and the country. That is why, back at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, it was decided to forgo dividends in 2022 and direct all available funds to charity,” the document states.
According to the press release, 100% of the corporate rights of the group’s shareholders have now been seized and transferred to the National Agency for the Detection, Search and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) because of the sanctions imposed on its shareholders with Russian citizenship. At the same time, according to IDS Ukraine, more than 50% of the holding’s securities belong to persons to whom sanctions were not applied – citizens of Great Britain, Georgia and Ukraine.
The press release notes that IDS Ukraine provided more than UAH 100 mln of charitable aid in 2022; in particular, it transferred water in excess of UAH 67 mln for the needs of military personnel, the wounded, displaced persons and residents of de-occupied territories. In addition, the holding continues to pay salaries for a hundred and fifty of its mobilized employees, as well as buying for them ammunition and equipment.
“For their part, the non-sanctioned shareholders of the company, even though the state grossly violates their property rights, consider the provision of charitable assistance in 2023 as one of the priority areas of the companies. Only in January 2023, 120 thousand liters of water were transferred to Kherson, and the total amount of transferred products already this year is about 500 thousand liters,” the mineral water producer summarized in a press release.
As earlier reported, on February 10 ARMA announced a competition for the selection of a manager for arrested assets of IDS Ukraine, which produces and sells mineral water under brands Morshinskaya, Mirgorodskaya and Borjomi.
Earlier, Marko Tkachuk, the general director of IDS Ukraine, said in response to Interfax-Ukraine news agency inquiry that the transfer of corporate rights of the company worth more than UAH 10 billion to ARMA will not affect the economic activities of the group. He also reminded that the decision about the transfer of corporate rights of the sanctioned IDS shareholders with Russian citizenship to ARMA was made by Kiev Shevchenko District Court on November 9 and 11, 2022.
On November 23 last year, the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (BES) reported about the arrest of corporate rights of the Russian shareholders of the IDS Ukraine in order to avoid their withdrawal from Ukraine of the assets of seven enterprises for the production and sale of drinking water. According to the BEB, these enterprises are actually owned by them through a non-resident offshore company under their control.
IDS Ukraine is a Ukrainian group of companies founded in 1996, the largest national producer of bottled water. The holding includes Morshynsky mineral water plant “Oskar”, “Mirgorod mineral water plant”, the distribution company “IDS” and water delivery operator “IDS Aqua Service”.
GK owns trade marks Morshinskaya, Mirgorodskaya, Alaska and Aqua Life.
