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Křetínský, PPF and Rockaway bought the owners of the Planeo Elektro chain

PPF and EC Investments Daniel Křetínský and Patrik Tkáč will hold 40 percent of the shares, and Rockaway Jakub Havrlant will have the remaining 20 percent. The previous owners of the Fast group were Tomáš and Marek Smrček, descendants of the late businessman Tomáš Smrčka. As both owners were minors until recently, their guardian was Zdeněk Pech, who was also the chairman of the board of Fast ČR.

“A diversified and stable portfolio of own brands is the most attractive part of the Fast Group. It thus creates great potential for further development both in the current key markets of the Central European region and in other countries. It is the buyers who plan to build further growth of the group on their own brands, “the consortium of companies said in a press release.

Buyers also appreciate the quality of the management of the Fast group, even after the takeover it should operate in its current composition. “Buyers have full confidence in the current management,” the press release said.

The Fast Group has been in profit for a long time, in 2020 it reported revenues of around CZK 13 billion and EBITDA (profit before interest, taxes and depreciation) of over CZK 900 million, and in the previous year it recorded a profit after tax of CZK 381 million. In 2019, it had a cumulative profit of 1.5 billion crowns. Every year, it pays dividends of 20 million crowns to shareholders.

Křetínský, PPF and Rockaway can significantly strengthen the Mall Group, which they co-own in equal proportions. E-commerce giant is long-term loss-making, however, according to preliminary information they have brought Economic newspaper, the company should record a profit for the first time last year, although its amount is not yet known. For the fiscal year from the beginning of last April to the beginning of March this year, the company reported sales worth over 20 billion crowns. In 2019, it achieved a loss of 1.71 billion crowns, the year before it 1.69 billion.


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The transaction must be approved by the antitrust authority. The merger would create a retail and wholesale group with revenues of around 33 billion crowns, for example, the Czech number one in e-commerce Alza.cz achieved revenues of 37 billion crowns last year.

In addition to the network of 90 Planeo Elektro stores, the Fast Group also owns the electronics brands Sencor, Philco and Fieldman, in addition to which it supplies Beko or LG appliances to the Czech market. The company’s most important customers include Makro, Ahold, Datart or the Mall.cz e-shop. The company operates in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, employing a total of over a thousand people.

Daniel Křetínský is the co-owner of the Czech News Center publishing house, where the E15 daily is also published.

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