The first coupon payment amounting to TL 66,589,090.56 on the TL 556,430,000 nominally valued commercial paper, which was sold to qualified investors on February 21, 2024 with a maturity of 295 days and trades with the ISIN Code of TRFVESTA2419, was made as of today. The interest rate for the second coupon payment has been set as 13.7439%.
Vestel Beyaz Eşya Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ's application to the Capital Markets Board ("CMB") regarding Ms. Ayşegül İldeniz's eligibility, who has been serving as an independent board member at Vestel Beyaz Eşya Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ since 2018 to be renominated as an independent board member candidate by our Company at the 2023 Annual General Meeting to be held on May 29, 2024, has been accepted and Ms. İldeniz has been granted temporary exemption from the independence requirement stated in Article 4.3.6 (g) of the CMB's Corporate Governance Principles, for a period of up to one year, taking into account her professional experience and expertise, as well as the support she personally provides to the Company's growth and expansion goals in the field of software and artificial intelligence solutions, and the innovation, technology, and future vision she contributes to the Company's ongoing operations. In addition, within the framework of our Company being in the first Group, the Capital Markets Board has not issued a negative opinion regarding the candidacy of Mr. Adnan Yıldırım and Mr. Emin Ataç, who are nominated as other independent board member candidates by our Company's Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors of Vestel Beyaz Eşya Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi has made the following decisions.
Vestel Beyaz Eşya Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ recorded TL 4,724,452,000 net profit in the 2023 accounting period according to the financial statements prepared within the framework of the "Communiqué on Principles of Financial Reporting in the Capital Markets" numbered II.14.1 of the Capital Markets Board ("CMB") and in accordance with the formats determined by the Public Oversight Accounting and Auditing Standards Authority (“KGK”) and CMB based on the Turkish Financial Reporting Standards (“TFRS”) put into effect by the KGK and audited by PwC Bağımsız Denetim ve Serbest Muhasebecilik Mali Müşavirlik AŞ; and a net profit of TL 3,236,186,078 in its statutory financial statements prepared in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Tax Procedure Law No. 213 (“TPL”).
After setting aside, as per the Paragraph 1 of the Article 519 of the Turkish Commercial Code, the required amount of TL 161,809,304 for the first legal reserves (at the rate of 5%) from the net profit of TL 3,236,186,078 recorded in the Company’s statutory financial statements prepared in accordance with the TPL regulations, the net distributable profit is calculated as TL 3,074,376,774.
The Accumulated Profit/Loss account (including current year net profit of TL 3,236,186,078) has a negative balance of TL 538,638,699 as a result of inflation adjustment of the balance sheet dated 31 December 2023, prepared in accordance with TPL regulations. Furthermore, Inflation Adjustment Differences Regarding Equity Accounts covers the total decrease of TL 3,774,824,776 due to inflation adjustment.
After deducting TL 161,809,304 set aside as the first legal reserve from the net profit of TL 4,724,452,000 recorded in the Company’s financial statements prepared in accordance with the CMB and KGK regulations, the net distributable profit is calculated as TL 4,562,642,696. Following the addition of TL 83,283,745 of donations made in the year and calculated according to the purchasing power as of December 31, 2023, to net distributable profit, the first dividend base is calculated as TL 4,645,926,441.
In accordance with the Company’s Articles of Association and Dividend Distribution Policy, the first dividend is determined as TL 1,161,481,610, which is calculated as 25% of the donations added distributable net profit for the year based on the CMB financial statements. After deducting the dividend of TL 1,161,481,610 and second legal reserve of TL 108,148,161 from the net distributable profit based on the Tax Procedure Law, the remaining amount of TL 1,804,747,003 will be transferred to the extraordinary reserves. Accordingly, the Company’s Board of Directors who attended the meeting unanimously resolved to propose the payment of TL 1,161,481,610 of cash dividends to its shareholders, which corresponds to a gross cash dividend of TL 0.7259 and a net cash dividend of TL 0.6533 per share (with a nominal value of TL 1) on July 25, 2024 and to submit these proposals to the approval of shareholders at the Annual General Assembly for the year 2023.
Vestel Beyaz Eşya Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ's Board of Directors made the following decisions.
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Vestel Beyaz Eşya announced sales revenues of TL 61,070 mn and net profit of TL 4,724 mn in 2023.
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JCR Eurasia Rating has evaluated "Vestel Beyaz Eşya Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ" in the investment grade category with very high credit quality and affirmed its Long-Term National Issuer Credit Rating as ‘AA+ (tr)' and the Short-Term National Issuer Credit Rating as ‘J1+ (tr)' with ‘Stable' outlooks. On the other hand, the Long Term International Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Credit Ratings and Outlooks were assigned as ‘BB/Negative' in parallel to the international ratings and outlooks of Republic of Türkiye.
The second coupon payment amounting to TL 4,737,000 on the TL 50,000,000 nominally valued corporate bond, which was sold to qualified investors on August 25, 2023 with a maturity of 390 days and trades with the ISIN Code of TRSVEST92410, was made as of today.The interest rate for the third coupon payment has been set as 11.8081%. This statement was translated into English for informational purposes.
The second coupon payment amounting to TL 29,169,920 on the TL 260,000,000 nominally valued corporate bond, which was sold to qualified investors on September 1, 2023 with a maturity of 383 days and trades with the ISIN Code of TRSVEST92428, was made as of today.The interest rate for the third coupon payment has been set as 11.8081%.
Vestel Beyaz Esya Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. completed the sale of a TL 556,430,000 commercial paper with floating coupon payment with a maturity of 295 days to domestic qualified investors, the transfer of the securities to the customer accounts will be completed today. The interest rate of this instrument is 48% annual simple for the first coupon, 48% annual simple or the higher of TLREF + 2.00% (BIST TLREF Index Change + 200 Basis Points Additional Return) for the other coupons. Ak Yatırım Menkul Kıymetler AŞ has acted as the financial intermediary for the issue.
TL 390,000,000 nominally valued Corporate Bond, which was sold to qualified investors on September 1, 2023 with a maturity of 173 days and with the ISIN Code of TRFVEST22414, was redeemed as of today (February 21, 2024) with completion of th coupon payment amounting to TL 77,636,910 and the principal payment of TL 390,000,000. This statement was translated into English for informational purposes. In case of a discrepancy between the Turkish and the English versions of this disclosure statement, the Turkish version shall prevail.