The Management Board of Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. hereby publishes the corrected wording of current report No. 35/2014 dated April 30, 2014. As a result of a typing error an incorrect date was given. The correct wording of the report is as follows:
The Management Board of Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. (Cyfrowy Polsat, the Company) informs that on April 30, 2014 Standard & Poor's Rating Services (S&P) affirmed its 'BB' long-term corporate credit rating on Cyfrowy Polsat with a stable outlook. At the same time S&P also assigned the long-term issue rating at 'BB' to Cyfrowy Polsat's term facility loan denominated in Polish zloty up to the maximum amount of PLN 2.5 billion and multicurrency revolving facility loan up to a maximum amount of the equivalent of PLN 500 million, about which the Company informed in current report No. 26/2014 dated April 11, 2014.
The agency justified its decision by the fact that Cyfrowy Polsat has made meaningful progress toward the completion of its acquisition of Metelem Holdings Company Ltd. (Metelem), the ultimate parent of Polkomtel Sp. z o.o., including obtaining funds for refinancing of existing debt, thus meeting the main conditions precedent of the conditional investment agreements regarding the acquisition of shares in Metelem.
In the agency's view, the integration of Poland's largest direct-to-home pay-TV and mobile telecom operator materially increases Cyfrowy Polsat's diversity and scale. Therefore S&P revised its assessment of Cyfrowy Polsat's business risk profile upward to satisfactory from fair.
The securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time.
Legal basis: Article 56 Section 1 item 2 the Offering Act in connection with § 5 Section 1 item 26 of the Ordinance of the Minister of Finance of February 19, 2009 regarding current and periodic information to be submitted by issuers of securities and terms of acknowledging the equivalence of information required under the laws of non-member states.
