Etalon Group Delivers 20 ths sqm at Samotsvety

21 September 2017

ETALON GROUP PLC (“Etalon Group” or the “Company”), one of Russia’s largest and longest-established development and construction companies, announces that it has delivered another residential building at its Samotsvety project in St Petersburg. The total NSA of the building is 20 ths sqm, which includes a parking garage and 16 ths sqm of residential NSA containing 195 apartments.

The first two residential buildings of the Samotsvety project were delivered in 4Q 2015.

Samotsvety will consist of four residential buildings of up to 11 stories situated in central St Petersburg on a land plot bordering the Smolenka river embankment in the Vasileostrovskiy district. The project has a total planned NSA of 213 ths sqm, of which 148 have already been delivered, including the recently-delivered building. The remainder of the project is on track to be completed in 2018.

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

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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 Etalon LenSpetsSMU subsidiaries. With a 30-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 5.5 million sqm.

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 2016 was RUB 7.8 billion.

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 5 thousand people, and its nationwide sales and marketing network covers 52 Russian cities.

As of 31 December 2016, Etalon Group's portfolio comprised 35 projects, with a total of 2.82 million sqm of unsold net sellable area. JLL valued this portfolio at RUB 115,818 million.

For the year ended 31 December 2016, Etalon Group's new contract sales totalled 496 ths sqm, or RUB 47,443 million. Deliveries in 2016 amounted to 420 ths sqm.

The Company recorded revenue of RUB 49.0 billion and EBITDA of RUB 7.3 billion for the year ended 31 December 2016.

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