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Abbott Laboratories

The Abbott Laboratories Board of Directors announced a quarterly dividend of $0.51 per share. The last day to buy securities to receive the dividend is April 12, 2023. The annual dividend yield may reach 1.84%.

NextEra Energy

The NextEra Energy Board of Directors announced a quarterly dividend of $0.4675 per share. The last day to buy securities to receive the dividend is February 23, 2023. The annual dividend yield may reach 2.17%.

Lenta

Retailer Lenta installed Bio-Refill stations in six hypermarkets by BioMio, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly household chemicals. At the stations, you can buy several household cleaning products in reusable containers. To do this, you need to buy a suitable container in the store or bring your own. To prevent germs from getting into the food contai...

Segezha Group

Segezha Group will make a decision on the implementation of the project to build a new pulp and paper mill in Karelia not earlier than 2025. This project of the Segezha-West pulp and paper mill remains on the agenda. However, after the introduction of sanctions in 2022, the feasibility and possibility of its implementation were questioned due to the lack of...

Rushydro

RusHydro's net profit under RAS for 2022 was ₽25. 99 billion, which is half as much as ₽50.86 billion in the previous year. Revenue increased by 5% to ₽199.58 billion versus ₽190.11 billion a year earlier.

VK

VK entered into an agreement to sell Foodplex, whose key product is the R_keeper multifunctional platform for restaurants. Buyers were the founders of the platform, Grigory Gurevich and Evgeny Malakhov. The amount of the deal is not disclosed. The sale of the asset is planned to be completed in March of this year.

Gazprom

Vladimir Putin signed into law amendments to the Tax Code that take Gazprom and its subsidiaries out of the 34% higher profit tax rate that will be imposed on all LNG exporters starting January 1, 2023. Tax rate was raised from 20% to 34% last November and will be in effect from 2023 to 2025.

LUKOIL

Bulgaria's Competition Protection Commission has fined Lukoil-Bulgaria 67.8 million leva, equivalent to €34.6 million. Reason for the fine was violation of the law on protection of competition - abuse of a dominant position by exerting price pressure in the wholesale of motor fuels in the country. As a result of the commission's active actions during the inv...

Gazprom Neft

Gazprom Neft has successfully completed testing of the EVO.1 small electric truck for warehouse transportation. Electric vehicle is equipped with a hybrid power system: from electric batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. And the use of unmanned technology allows loading and unloading operations without the involvement of drivers. One operator is enough to contr...

Unipro

Unipro's IFRS net income for 2022 was ₽21.27 billion, up 2.6 times from ₽8.23 billion in previous year. Revenue increased 20% to ₽105.8 billion compared to ₽88.13 billion a year earlier.