Cyfrowy Polsat Group, through Polkomtel, acquired Litenite - a company controlling 66% of shares in Midas Group. Under the second stage of the transaction a tender offer for shares was announced to buy back the remaining 34% of shares of Midas Group. The transaction will be financed from Cyfrowy Polsat Group’s own resources.
Cyfrowy Polsat Group repaid the Senior Notes issued by Eileme 2 AB (publ) – a company from Cyfrowy Polsat Group – with the nominal value of EUR 542.5 million and USD 500 million, thereby completing the process of refinancing the current indebtedness of the Group.
When analyzing cost models of further development of the network and services for the customers, Polkomtel (a company belonging to Cyfrowy Polsat Capital Group) decided that it would be more profitable and effective, while at the same time ensuring the highest quality of services, to roll out the network on other frequencies than 800 MHz band.
Following a tender, Cyfrowy Polsat and Plus selected a new media house, Vizeum Poland. Starting from January 2016 the new media house will be responsible for the media strategy, planning and purchase of media for the needs of the two companies’ advertising campaigns.
Vizeum Polska will be responsible for the comprehensive strategy of operation of the two companies in all media, both in the off-line media, namely TV, the press, radio, cinemas, outdoor, as well as in the on-line and social media.
On Monday, October 12, 2015, during an official gala of one of the most important competitions in the advertising sector – Effie Awards – Polsat Group received an award for the smartDOM program.
Cyfrowy Polsat Group entered into a facility agreement with a consortium of Polish and foreign financial institutions comprising a term facility of up to PLN 11.5 billion and a revolving facility of up to PLN 1 billion, which, together with Series A unsecured bearer bonds with the total nominal value of PLN 1 billion, issued in July of this year, will be used to refinance the whole Group indebtedness.
Cyfrowy Polsat – the biggest media-and-telecommunications group in Poland with 6 million contract customers, providing 16,3 million RGUs: mobile telephony, pay TV and Internet access – was distinguished for the second time by the British financial magazine Euromoney in the „Best Managed Companies in Central & Eastern Europe 2015” ranking.
Cyfrowy Polsat Group published the results for Q2 and H1 2015.
Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. has successfully issued corporate unsecured series A bearer bonds having with the nominal value of PLN 1 billion. The bonds have been registered in the National Depository for Securities and will be listed in the ASO Catalyst Alternative Trading System.
Following the public offer, which commenced on July 2, 2015 and was addressed to at least 150 designated addressees, on July 10 the bonds were allocated to 52 investors who included numerous investment and pension funds as well as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
