Quarter Partners, a private investment fund, has bought shares in the DOC.UA online medical service, the fund said in a press release. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed.
According to Quarter Partners, in 2020 it is planned to launch the DOC.UA service in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Moldova. The markets of Georgia, Azerbaijan, the Baltic countries and the UAE are also under development.
The head of the supervisory board of EFI GROUP (a group of companies that is the majority owner of the service), Ihor Liski noted that attracting such investments will bring the service to a new level.
“We continue to improve our innovative practices, strengthen the team and its effectiveness. Therefore, Quarter Partners is a reliable partner for us, able to support bringing the project to a new level,” he said.
EFI GROUP (Effective Investments) operates in various sectors of the economy: pulp industry, gas industry, energy, agriculture, woodworking, creative industry, and healthcare.
The DOC.UA service monthly serves more than 700,000 requests. A base of more than 10,000 doctors and 1,700 medical institutions in Ukraine is available to DOC.UA customers.
Quarter Partners fund invests in businesses with a high growth potential for their development and subsequent sale to strategic investors. The founder of the fund is Ukrainian investor Andriy Ivanov. Quarter Partners completed deals on equity raising and selling to strategic investors totaling over $5 billion.
Canada’s FFHL Group has announced its intent to acquire 29.08% of shares in PrJSC Universalna Insurance Company (Kyiv).
According to the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, earlier FFHL Group and affiliated persons did not hold shares of Universalna.
Earlier, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine permitted Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited to purchase (through a subsidiary of FFHL Group Ltd.) shares of PrJSC Universalna Insurance Company, which will grant over 25% of the votes in the governing body of the insurance company.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine also allowed Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited to acquire shares of Universalna insurer through the newly created FFH Ukraine Holdings LLC, which will grant over 50% of the votes in the governing body of the insurer.
Universalna was founded in 1991, It provides services in the field of risk insurance. It offers services for 42 types of insurance. The company’s regional network has more than 300 points of sale throughout Ukraine.
Kernel, one of the largest Ukrainian agricultural groups, could consider a possibility of selling shares in a deep-water grain terminal at the Taman port (Russia) if the price offered for them were acceptable, the agricultural holding has said on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE).
Several potential buyers are interested, and if the holding receives the satisfactory price, it will seriously consider the issue of leaving the Russian market, Kernel President Andriy Verevsky said.
As reported, in 2012, Kernel and Glencore acquired a 100% stake in the deep-water grain terminal in the port of Taman from the EFKO group. The transaction value was $265 million. Kernel received a 50% stake in this terminal. In 2018, Kernel transferred its quota for transshipment of 1.8 million tonnes of grain to a third party and received $7.8 million for this.
Kernel is the world’s largest producer and exporter of sunflower oil, a leading manufacturer and supplier of agricultural products from the Black Sea region to the world markets.
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.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) has announced that it has reached a final settlement price of EUR 221.095 million with Slovenian Steel Group (SIJ) to acquire Perutnina Ptuj, a leading poultry meat and a meat-processing company headquartered in Slovenia.
According to a company report, the price per share is EUR 22.34. SIJ held 9.897 million shares in the Slovenian company. The acquisition was completed in February 2019 subject with final purchase price defined based on audited financial statements of 2018. MHP has now completed this process and has today confirmed a 90.69% stake in Perutnina Ptuj.
“The company is undertaking a full assessment of Perutnina Ptuj’s production facilities and will reveal a full modernisation plan later this year during roadshow/meeting with stakeholders both in Slovenia and London together with top management of both companies,” MHP said.
MHP is the largest poultry producer in Ukraine. It also deals with production of grain, sunflower oil, meat goods.
The most liquid shares of Ukrainian companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) calmly reacted on the outcome of the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine.
According to the WSE, as of 10:00 am on April 1, the share price of the Ovostar agricultural holding slightly decreased – by 0.93%, to PLN 107 per share. The share price of Agroton agroholding increased 3.66%, to PLN 3.54 per share, Astarta – by 1.84%, to PLN 27.7 per share. Besides, the stock price of IMC increased by 0.72%, to PLN 13.95 per share and Kernel – by 0.2%, to PLN 49.3 per share.
On the LSE, the JKX Oil & Gas oil and gas company shares fell by 2.27%, to GBP 0.5375 per share. Shares of British Ferrexpo Plc, which controls Poltava and Yeristovo mining and processing plants in Ukraine, rose by 3.03%, to GBP 0.255 per share.
The stock price of the agricultural holding MHP increased 0.98%, to $10.35 per share. Share price of the British oil and gas company Regal Petroleum Plc with assets in Ukraine has not changed being GBP 0.435 per share.
