2019

The Management Board of Orzeł Biały S.A., pursuant to Art. 77 Para. 5 of the Public Offering Act, hereby submits the contents of the tender offer to subscribe for the sale of the shares of The Company.

On October10th, The Company in the cooperation with State Fire Service will conduct fire drills (planned start: 10:00 am).

On October 7, 2019 in Warsaw, an international conference 30 Years of Cleaner Production – towards Circular Economy was held under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology, the Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection, Global Compact Network Poland and the Federation of NOT Scientific and Technical Associations.

he Management Board of Orzeł Biały S.A.  hereby announces that on 07.10.2019 it received a letter from the representative of PineBridge New Europe Partners II-A, L.P.  and NEF Battery Holdings S.a.r.l. with its registered office in Luxembourg informing about the notification on the same day, i.e. on 7.10.2019, to the Seller by ZAP Sznajder Batterien S.A.  on the fulfillment of the condition for concluding the final agreement regarding the sale to The Buyer of 100% shares in the share capital of the Shareholder, being in the form of the approval of the President of UOKiK, Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, of October 3, 2019 to carry out the concentration involving indirect takeover by The Buyer of the control of The Issuer.

The Management Board of Orzeł Biały S.A. (“The Issuer”, “The Company”) hereby announces that on 30.09.2019, pursuant to the decision of the District Court in Gliwice, 10th Commercial Division of the National Court Register, the merger of The Issuer was done with its subsidiary Speedmar spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością with its registered office at Piekary Śląskie.

The Issuer notified earlier stages of the merger process with Current Reports nos: 19/2019 of 17.07.2019, 22/2019 of 31.07.2019, 23/2019 of 01.08.2019, 27/2019 of 26.08.2019 and 28/2019 of 05.09.2019.

The merger took place through the takeover of Speedmar spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością [limited liability company] by The Issuer, without increasing The share captal of the Issuer, in accordance with Art. 515 § 1 of KSH (Commercial Companies Code).

On the day of entering the merger into the Companies Register of the National Court Register, The Issuer took upon all rights and obligations of Speedmar Speedmar spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością [limited liability company], which, as a result of the merger, will be deleted from the Companies Register.

The merger is consistent with the adopted strategy of The Company consisting primarily in focusing on its core business. The merger will translate into simplified organisational structure and accomodates increasingly higher expectations and compliance standards.

Legal basis: Art. 507 KSH (Commercial Companies Code)

Orzeł Biały Group is the largest Group specialising in recycling of used batteries and aleading producer of refined lead in Poland with international outreach, earned in the first half-year of 2019 revenues of PLN 305.1 million.

• EBITDA of the Group (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) totalled PLN 12.9 million, thus providing a profitability at 4.2%.
• Net profit of Orzeł Biały Group amounted to PLN 5.8 million.
•  In the area of core business operations, the volume of refined lead sold was 34.2 thousand metric tonnes and remained stable.