DJ ROSTELECOM PJSC: Rostelecom acquires a leading e-waste management developer
ROSTELECOM PJSC (RKMD)
ROSTELECOM PJSC: Rostelecom acquires a leading e-waste management developer
30-Nov-2020 / 12:40 MSK
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Rostelecom acquires a leading e-waste management developer
Moscow, Russia - November 30, 2020 - Rostelecom group (MOEX: RTKM, RTKMP;
OTCQX: ROSYY), the largest integrated digital service provider in Russia,
today announces that it has acquired 1% shares of Big3, a developer and
provider of complex IT systems for waste and environmental management. The
group has also signed a call-option agreement to increase Rostelecom's
participation to 51%, subject to exercising in H1 2021. The total value of
the deal stands at RUB 1.275 billion, including call option exercise.
The acquisition will strengthen Rostelecom's leading position in the e-waste
management market, which is projected to reach over RUB 20 billion within
five coming years. Big3 will join Rostelecom as a subsidiary company, while
retaining key staff and competencies.
Big3 is a Russian IT company and software developer aiming at facilitating
ecology issues. A leader in the digitalisation of waste and environmental
management and software e-waste market, the Company's products have been
already implemented in over 60 regions. Big3 ensures fully automatization
and digitalisation of business process across regional waste operators while
their solutions can model the industry operations both at a level of
particular territory as well as at a nationwide scale. The Company's 2020
revenues are expected to reach RUB 1 billion.
Anna Shumeiko, Senior Vice-President, the Chief of Staff of the President of
Rostelecom commented: "The acquisition of Big3 is a strategic milestone for
Rostelecom in the establishment of a new highly perspective business
cluster, which can be easily compared to such cornerstone businesses as
cyber security and cloud. Waste management and environmental responsibility
as a whole are becoming incredibly important for companies in every sector
and government authorities at the federal and regional levels. The
significant investment in the development of IT systems in this space within
the national Project "Ecology", recently launched by the Russian Government,
opens significant opportunities leveraging Big3's competencies and digital
solutions. This is especially relevant to expanding and complementing our
range of services given that a large number of Rostelecom's clients are
deeply involved in the smart city and smart region projects where the
nationwide scale of our operations makes us an undisputable leader."
Igor Zimin, Vice President for Applied Projects at Rostelecom, commented:
"The Big3 acquisition presents a new highly prospective source of growth,
offering the potential to increase the scale of our digital offering,
complemented by complex IT systems for environmental management. We have
already started to mature some opportunities to expand this new cluster, and
have been focusing in particular on the ways of digitising the management of
medical waste which presents epidemiological danger. In light of the
COVID-19 pandemics, the amount of PPE waste including facemasks and
single-use gloves that need to be sterilised, disinfected or recycled, has
increased substantially, and it is crucial to ensure that reliable control
measures and management tools and systems are in place. This process can be
significantly advanced and improved in efficiency with the use of
Rostelecom's digital solutions."
Further information is available at
https://www.company.rt.ru/en/ir/news_calendar/ [1].
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Rostelecom [2] is the largest integrated digital services and products
provider, operating in all segments of the telecommunications market in
Russia. The Company serves millions of households, state and private
enterprises across the country.
Rostelecom is Russia's undisputed market leader, providing high-speed
Internet access and pay-TV. The total number of broadband users stands at
over 13.4 mln users, it has more than 10.7 mln pay-TV customers, over 5.8
mln of which are subscribed to Rostelecom's IPTV services. Tele2 Russia, a
Rostelecom subsidiary, is a major player in the mobile market with over 44
mln subscribers and the industry-leading NPS, a customer satisfaction
benchmark.
The Group is the leading provider of telecommunications services to
government bodies and corporates of all levels.
Rostelecom is a key strategic innovator that provides solutions in the
following fields: E-Government, cybersecurity, data-centers and cloud
computing, biometry, healthcare, education and housing & utility services.
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within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws and intended to be
covered by the safe harbours created thereby.
Those forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:
? Assessment of PAO Rostelecom's (the Company) future operating and
financial results as well as forecasts of the present value of future cash
flows and related factors;
? The Company's plans to take ownership stakes in other organisations;
? the Company's anticipated capital expenditures and plans to construct
and modernize its network;
? the Company's expectations as to the growth in demand for its services,
plans relating to the expansion of the range of its services and their
pricing;
? the Company's plans with respect to improving its corporate governance
practices;
? the Company's expectations as to its position in the telecommunications
market and forecasts on the development of the market segments within
which the Company operates;
? economic outlook and industry trends;
? the Company's expectations as to the regulation of the Russian
telecommunications industry and assessment of impact of regulatory
initiatives on the Company's activity;
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Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and
other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks,
uncertainties and other factors include:
? risks relating to changes in political, economic and social conditions
in Russia as well as changes in global economic conditions;
? risks relating to Russian legislation, regulation and taxation,
including laws, regulations, decrees and decisions governing the Russian
telecommunications industry, securities industry as well as currency and
exchange controls relating to Russian entities and their official
interpretation by regulatory bodies;
? risks relating to the Company, including the achievement of the
anticipated results, levels of profitability and growth, ability to create
and meet demand for the Company's services including their promotions, and
the ability of the Company to remain competitive in a liberalized
telecommunications market;
? technological risks associated with the functioning and development of
the telecommunications infrastructure, technological innovations as well
as the convergence of technologies;
? other risks and uncertainties. For a more detailed discussion of these
and other factors, see the Company's Annual Report and the Company's other
public filings.
Many of these factors are beyond the Company's ability to control or
predict. Given these and other uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on any of the forward-looking statements contained
herein or otherwise. The Company does not undertake any obligation to
release publicly any revisions to these forward-looking statements (which
are made as of the date hereof) to reflect events or circumstances upon the
annual report publication or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events, except as may be required under applicable laws.
ISIN: US7785291078
Category Code: ACQ
TIDM: RKMD
LEI Code: 2534001D752JPNM0H170
Sequence No.: 88754
EQS News ID: 1151438
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