RB nr 46/2006
Komisja Nadzoru FinasowegoLegal basis: § 5 subpar. 1 pt. 1 of RO and § 7 of RO
The Management Board of MCI Management SA informs that on November 30, 2006 the fund took up at their nominal price 132 newly issued shares in the Czech company Nostromo s.r.o. based in Prague. MCI Management SA paid CZK 132 thousand for the shares. The purchased shares in total correspond to 33.33% of the share capital of the company. Over the next two weeks MCI will increase the capital of the company with additional CZK 7,700 thousand, without changing its shareholding in the share capital. This is the first round of the investment in Nostromo ICT s.r.o. – the producer, publisher and distributor of wireless entertainment in Central and Eastern Europe. Furthermore MCI committed to provide USD 1 million to finance expansion of the Company to other markets and increase of the current development capacity, with a long-term vision to leverage Nostromo\”s position as the Central European market leader in premium mobile content.
Nostromo ICT s.r.o. a private company active in the area of development of mobile games and general mobile content, especially branded content, and is also heavily involved in distribution of mobile content as an aggregator and licensed distributor. Global Headquarters and development is based in Prague, Czech Republic and local offices and sales representatives in Warsaw, Zagreb and Moscow. Nostromo entered wireless entertainment space in 2002 when developing mobile games for Lord of the Rings property. Since then Nostromo has worked with numerous acclaimed international and regional brands including Shrek, James Bond, X-Men, Spider-Man, Garfield, Mr. Bean, Hallmark properties, Happy Tree Friends, Nu Pogodi!, Pat and Mat and more.
Nostromo is the only company in Central and Eastern Europe pioneering wireless licensing on a regional basis as both an in-house developer and a distributor of well known, high quality brands. The aim of Nostromo is to leverage its presence throughout the region by providing portfolio of international licensed properties as well as greatly successful locally based product lines.
Recent achievements include Nostromo being awarded exclusive worldwide development rights for Garfield 2: Royal Adventure, the mobile wireless game which has been rolled out to coincide with the release of the new Garfield movie hit in Q2 and Q3 2006. The game has impressed critics globally and it became the very first game by Nostromo to be launched simultaneously in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The game supports more than 750 various mobile handsets and thus opened new era in Nostromo\”s history as a publisher and developer of premium games.
The purchased assets correspond to over 20% of the share capital of Nostromo ICT s.r.o. and are considered assets of significant value.