Kotipizza Group Oyj

Stock Exchange Release 27 August 2018 at 1.00am (EEST)

Kotipizza Group Oyj: Flagging announcement pursuant to Securities Markets Act Chapter 9, Section 10

Pursuant to the Finnish Securities Markets Act chapter 9, section 5, Axxion S.A. announced on 27 August 2018 that its holding in Kotipizza Group Oyj has exceeded the threshold of (5) percent (1/20) of share capital on 24 August 2018. 

1. The company: Kotipizza Group Oyj

2. The date of change in holdings: 24 August 2018

3. Exact proportion of share capital and voting rights as of 24 August 2018: The shares managed by Axxion S.A. totaled 336.660 shares representing 5.30% of total share capital and total voting rights. 

4. Shareholder: Axxion S.A

Kotipizza Group Oyj Tommi Tervanen, CEO

More information: Tommi Tervanen, CEO tel. +358 207 716 743

Timo Pirskanen, CFO and Deputy to the CEO tel. +358 207 716 747

Kotipizza Group in brief Kotipizza is a Finnish pizza chain founded in 1987. At the end of financial year 2017, the number of restaurants stood at 266. In the financial year 2017, the total sales of Kotipizza restaurants amounted to EUR 106.3 million. The Kotipizza chain and Kotipizza Oyj operating the chain are part of the Kotipizza Group, alongside the supply and logistics company Helsinki Foodstock Oy, Chalupa Oy that operates the Mexican-style restaurant chain Chalupa, The Social Burger Joint Oy that operates the Social Burgerjoint restaurant chain, as well as the No Pizza restaurant concept, aimed for international markets, that opened its first restaurant in June 2018.

In the financial year 2017, Helsinki Foodstock had net sales of EUR 64.2 million and the total sales of Chalupa restaurants were EUR 1.86 million. In the same period, the Kotipizza Group had net sales of EUR 79.9 million with a comparable EBITDA of EUR 8.52 million. 

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