OREANDA-NEWS. December 13, 2012. KOKS Group, the world’s largest exporter of merchant pig iron and a leading producer of merchant coke in Russia, announces that it has captured the first place in the “Best IR Service in Fixed Income Market” category of the “Сbonds Аwards 2012”. The award was granted according to the results of the poll arranged by Cbonds agency at its web-based information service page.

 Cbonds agency holds Cbonds Awards Ceremony during its annual Russian Bond Congress which is the largest Russia’s fixed income conference with more than 800 delegates this year. More than 500 representatives of the investment society participated in the poll arranged by the agency including analysts of the leading banks and investment companies, traders, heads of DCM teams and treasury officers. The voters had chosen 25 nominees for the category “Best IR Service in Fixed Income Market” where KOKS Group became the winner.

 “Currently we have a BO-02 series RUR5 billion bond traded on the market. Additionally, in June 2011 we have successfully tapped the international capital markets with a five-year USUSD  350 million Eurobond. During the Eurobond placement process, international investors’ confidence to our business was proved by 6 times oversubscription in the initial book of orders.

 We much appreciate the participants who voted in favor of KOKS Group for their positive view on our efforts to maintain an open and mutually beneficial dialog with professional society. This reward will certainly encourage us to further improve our external communications policy”, commented Natalia Astashenko, Chief Financial Officer of Management Company Industrial Metallurgical Holding (management company of KOKS Group).

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