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Pre-IPO

SaaS platform for catering establishments Smartofood has closed its investment round, raising ₽27.4 million from 882 private investors. Smartofood provides establishments with a ready-made delivery and takeaway website, mobile app, QR menu with table-side ordering, etc. In just 2.5 years, more than 450 restaurants have connected to Smartofood, and their turn...

Element

Element Group, together with development institutions, is preparing to launch an investment fund of up to ₽10 billion in the first half of 2025 and counts on state support measures. Fund will work on a buy&build model, i.e. to develop Element's own competencies and strengthen them through the acquisition of individual companies or teams.

Sberbank

Sberbank plans to launch an ecosystem of solutions for buying, selling and owning a car in 2025. These will be available in Sberbank Online and in a separate app.

Novorossiysk Bakery Products Plant

Shareholders of Novorossiysk Bakery Products Plant approved dividends for 9 months 2024 in the amount of ₽17.12 per ordinary share. The last day of purchase of securities to receive dividends is December 13, 2024. Dividend yield may amount to 2.87%.

Sberbank

Sberbank has given forecasts for the main business areas for 2025. The Bank expects growth in lending to individuals by 5%, to legal entities - 9-11%. Commission income growth is expected to be 7-10%. Net interest margin - 5.6%. Cost of risk - 1.5%. Sberbank will maintain capital adequacy at 13.3%, even with the countercyclical surcharge, and will continue p...

Lenta

Lenta has completed the renovation of its existing hypermarket in Chelyabinsk's Gorki shopping mall into an Economy format. Company changed the navigation and display logic and introduced large-format price tags to simplify the customer journey. Assortment of the store includes about 15,000 most popular goods, almost 25% of which are own brands. Main focus i...

Perm Energy Supply Company

Board of Directors of Perm Power Supply Company recommended to pay dividends based on the results of 9 months of 2024 in the amount of ₽20 per ordinary and preferred share. Last day to purchase securities to receive the dividend is January 9, 2025. Dividend yield on common shares may be 8.33%, preferred - 7.8%.

Ozon Pharmaceuticals

Ozon Pharmaceuticals introduced Cruoxaban with the active substance Rivaroxaban - a generic of the best-selling foreign drug. Its sales volume for 9 months of 2024 exceeded ₽13 billion. To date, more than 400 thousand packs of the generic have already been shipped.

Positive Technologies Group

Positive Technologies has entered into a distribution agreement with Mideast Communication Systems, a leading provider of IT and cybersecurity solutions in the Egyptian and African markets. Egypt is among the 12 countries that received the highest score in the Global Cybersecurity Index. According to Positive Technologies experts, the country ranks second in...

Samolet Group of Companies

Developer Samolet plans to reduce the pace of project output in Moscow and the Moscow region in 2025 until pent-up demand recovers. Company will also refrain from increasing its debt against the background of high key rate. Weighted average rate on the loan portfolio of Samolet is currently 12%, including corporate debt.