RNS Number : 0677T
Sistema-Hals JSC
29 May 2009
SISTEMA-HALS PUBLISHES MATERIALS FOR THE ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - May 29, 2009 - Sistema-Hals (LSE, MICEX, RTS: HALS), a major Russian real estate company, announced today that the materials for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Sistema-Hals are available in the Company's office and published on the Company's web-site: www.sistema-hals.ru.
As announced earlier, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company will be held on June 29, 2009.
The Board of Directors recommends that shareholders not declare dividend payout for the year 2008.
Sistema-Hals ('the Company') is a leading diversified company in the Russian and CIS real estate market. The core businesses of Sistema-Hals are development, asset management and facilities management.
The Company was the first Russian property developer to list its shares on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. The Company's shares are also listed on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and the Moscow Stock Exchange.
Since starting operations in 1994, Sistema-Hals has successfully completed about 40 projects with a total area in the region of 340,000 square metres, including the headquarters of DaimlerChrysler, the Hals Tower office building, the headquarters of Trubnaya Metallurgical Company and a hotel for the MaMaison chain (Orco Property Group).
At present Sistema-Hals is in the process of development the Leningradsky Towers complex in Moscow. It is also carrying out a complex redevelopment of the property portfolio of Moscow City Telephone Network, rebuilding the flagship Detsky Mir toy store near Lubyanka Square, and pursuing a series of other projects.
Sistema-Hals has assembled a balanced and diversified portfolio of assets in fast-growing sectors of the market. The Company's strategy is focused on building Class A and B office space, mixed-use retail and office complexes, business-class homes, residential estates and land development.
Cushman & Wakefield Stiles & Riabokobylko valued the Sistema-Hals share of properties and projects in its portfolio at $2,049 million as at 1 January 2009.
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