Milan, 30 May 2014 – In compliance with the request sent by Consob on 13 September 2012, pursuant to article 114, paragraph 5, of Legislative Decree 58/1998, the following information is provided on Prelios S.p.A. and its Group, as at 30 April 2014.
1) Net Financial Position, with current and non-current items reported separately.
It should be noted that the Net Financial Position at 30 April factors in the positive effects of 236.5 million euro, deriving from the occurred automatic conversion of the convertible bonds and the consequent implementation of capital increase exclusively serving the conversion.
Prelios Group Net Financial Position at 30 April 2014 is negative for 176.3 million euro, compared to -408.5 million euro at March 2014.
Prelios S.p.A. Net Financial Position at 30 April 2014 is negative for 220.3 million euro, compared to -437.9 million euro at March 2014.
2) Past due payables, recorded by category (financial, trade, tax, social security and amounts due to employees) and any associated actions by creditors (reminders, injunctions, suspended deliveries, etc.):
Prelios Group past due trade payables total 12.1 million euro (11.1 million euro at March 2014), today reduced to 9 million euro following to payment of 3.1 million euro in May.
This situation falls within the scope of the customary business relations with Prelios Group suppliers.
Prelios S.p.A. past due trade payables total 6 million euro (7.2 million euro at March 2014), today reduced to 4 million euro following to payment of 2 million euro in May.
There are no legal disputes, court proceedings or suspended deliveries associated with the above items. Any payment reminders are part of normal business relations.
There are no past due amounts of a financial or tax nature, or amounts due to social security institutions or to employees.
3) Prelios Group and Prelios S.p.A. dealings with Related Parties:
Dealings with related parties consisting of subsidiary companies of Prelios S.p.A. or joint ventures and its associated companies (“Intragroup Dealings”), and dealings with related parties other than intragroup dealings (“Other Related Parties”), in particular Pirelli & C. S.p.A. and its subsidiaries, are of a trade and financial nature, falling within normal business operations, and are at arm’s length. There are no atypical and/or unusual transactions.
It should also be noted that Prelios Group consolidates (on a line-by-line basis or with the equity method) about 200 companies (which will be reduced to about 120, following the completion of the sale of the DGAG portfolio), most of which are minorities, valuated using the equity method, booked under item “Earnings from equity investments”. In order to have monthly data, it would therefore be necessary to implement a chain of processes involving all the companies in question, with an enormous outlay of resources and high costs, which would provide information of limited significance, when considering the business cycle of the real estate sector which updates valuations on a quarterly or half-yearly basis.
It should be noted that the preliminary disclosure concerning the dealings with associated companies, joint ventures and other companies of Prelios Group as well as Prelios S.p.A. subsidiaries, relating to March 2014, reported below, is compared with the data that refer to last 31 December 2013 with regard to balance sheet data and with the data at 31 March 2013 with regard to income statement data. This is due to the fact that the Group’s internal invoicing cycle is essentially quarterly and no significant accounting provisions are made with subsidiary and associated companies in the intervening months. This especially affects operating Revenues and Costs, Financial Income and Charges, current Trade Receivables and Payables, which are items that do not therefore vary significantly in the intervening months.
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The Financial Reporting Officer of Prelios S.p.A., Dott. Marco Andreasi, attests – pursuant to Art. 154-bis, paragraph 2, of the Financial Markets Consolidation Act (Italian Legislative Decree 58/1998) – that the accounting disclosures contained in this press release correspond to the contents of the documents, registers and accounts of the Company.
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