Investor Releases
Earn-out payment relating to KFKI acquisition paid
Budapest, May 14, 2007
Magyar Telekom (Reuters: NYSE: MTA.N, BÉT: MTEL.BU and Bloomberg: NYSE: MTA US, BÉT: MTELEKOM HB), the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider, announces that it has paid the HUF 1.5bn earn-out payment to the previous owners of KFKI as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement.
According to the Share Purchase Agreement signed on June 16, 2006, the previous owners of KFKI were entitled to an earn-out payment of HUF 1.5 billion depending on the 2006 financial performance. As reported in the company’s full year 2006 consolidated financial statements, KFKI delivered HUF 19.8 billion revenues and HUF 2.0 billion EBITDA, reaching the predefined thresholds.
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