Etalon Group Wins 2015 IR Awards

12 July 2015

Etalon Group Limited (“Etalon Group” or the “Company”), one of Russia’s largest and longest-established development and construction companies, won two awards at the IR Magazine Russia & CIS awards ceremony held on 9 July 2015. The Company was among the Grand Prix winners for best overall investor relations across all Russian public companies, and Kirill Bagachenko was recognised as the best Head of Investor Relations in the real estate sector.  This is the second year in a row that the Company has been awarded in these two categories.

Winners are selected on the basis of the Extel Europe Survey, an annual, independent survey of brokerage firms, fund managers and sales desks. In 2015, some 18,000 investment professionals from 80 countries took part in the survey.

Etalon Group President Viacheslav Zarenkov said:

“We are very pleased that Etalon Group has earned recognition for the high quality of its investor relations work for the second year in a row.  Our whole management team is working hard to deliver value to shareholders over the long term, and one of our top priorities is maintaining an open and trust-based dialogue with capital markets.”

This and other recent announcements are available on the Etalon Group website:  www.etalongroup.com/investors/news/

Etalon Group IR Team 

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About Etalon Group 

Founded in 1987 by Viacheslav Zarenkov, Etalon Group has become one of Russia's largest development and construction corporations.  The Company focuses on middle class residential real estate in the Moscow and St. Petersburg metropolitan areas, where it operates through Etalon Invest and LenSpetsSMU subsidiaries. With a 27-year history, Etalon Group has one of the longest and most successful track records in the Russian real estate industry.

Since its inception, Etalon Group has commissioned 4.5 million sqm. Etalon Group's CAGR for deliveries in 2010-2014 was 29%.

Etalon Group's strong reputation among consumers supports its pre-sales business model, which helps the Company to minimise external financing needs for on-going projects while maintaining a secure liquidity position: net debt as of 31 December 2014 was RUB 636 million.

The Company is vertically integrated, which helps it to control costs, quality and timing, as well as to demonstrate best-in-class profitability. Etalon Group employs over 5,000 people, and its nationwide sales and marketing network covers 36 Russian cities.

As of 31 December 2014, Etalon Group's portfolio comprised 29 projects, with a total of 3.11 million sqm of unsold net sellable area. Jones Lang LaSalle valued this portfolio at RUB 104,286 million, a 17% increase in the market value from YE 2013.

For the year ended 31 December 2014, Etalon Group's new contract sales totalled 457 ths sqm, or RUB 39,961 million. Deliveries in 2014 totalled 580 ths sqm.

The Company recorded revenue of RUB 51.5 billion and EBITDA of RUB 10.6 billion, with an EBITDA margin of 21% for the year ended 31 December 2014.

Etalon Group Limited's GDRs have been traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange since 20 April 2011.