Following the trading suspension decision of its shares in Euronext Lisbon and in order to answer CMVM's request, Mota-Engil, SGPS S.A. ("Mota-Engil") clarifies that it is not aware of any fact that can justify the price performance of its shares. Nevertheless, Mota-Engil hereby reiterates several facts and information in order to clarify its shareholders and remaining stakeholders.
The world economic and financial context, namely in some markets where Mota-Engil operates, has proven to be difficult during 2015. Nevertheless, on a preliminary basis Mota-Engil states that in the fourth quarter of 2015, the receivables flow was positive in the three regions (Europe, Africa and Latin America), which allowed for a significant decrease of the consolidated debt level between the period ending in September 2015 and the period ending in December 2015. Although this trend follows the normal seasonality that characterizes Mota- Engil's debt evolution, it is important to highlight that almost all countries have contributed to this trend, mainly Mozambique, Mexico, Poland, but also Angola, Czech Republic and Portugal. It should also be stressed that along with this performance, Mota-Engil has been executing the refinancing of its debt in line with its plan and strategy, having closed several operations during the fourth quarter of 2015 and during the first days of 2016. Accordingly, Mota-Engil financial strategy mainly focuses at decreasing the debt cost and extending the debt maturity.
It is worth mentioning that Mota-Engil managed to once again adapt itself to the different impacts of the world crisis, the most relevant achievement being a significant increase in the activity in Latin America, which for the first time, in November 2015, surpassed Africa's region turnover. In order to cope with the external context, Mota-Engil is working on its organisational structure and is currently preparing a change in its corporate and management structure at the subholdings level, which support the coordination of the regional activity, namely in Africa, aiming at strengthening the alignment of Mota-Engil's goals with the specific reality and context of each market.
Lastly, from a strategic standpoint and as previously stated, it is worth mentioning that the focus on the waste collection and treatment businesses will allow the segment to grow and to expand in the international markets (namely with new operations in Latin America and in Oman). Besides, the disposal of highly mature assets (namely in transportation concessions and ports) has been proceeding successfully.
Porto, January 18, 2016
THE INVESTOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR
LUÍS SILVA
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Mota-Engil, SGPS, S.A. is a group organized around 6 sectors of activity:
- Engineering and Construction: Mota-Engil, SGPS, S.A. has developed construction projects in some fifty countries and is present on three continents (Europe, Africa and Latin America) where it has asserted its technical competence and reputation, excelling in the construction of various infrastructures such as roads, freeways, airports, ports, dams and railroads ;
- Industrial Engineering Services: the group has capitalized on its recognized presence and experience since 1998, with a proven ability to operate in numerous markets, reflected in medium-term contracts of between three and eight years;
- Environment: Mota-Engil, SGPS, S.A. began its activities in the environmental sector in Portugal in 1995, through the company SUMA in the urban waste management and collection segment, and added its skills to those of the company EGF, a leader in waste treatment and recovery. Internationally, Mota-Engil is increasingly developing its activities in this sector, in markets such as Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Brazil, Oman and Côte d'Ivoire;
- Mota-Engil Capital: a business unit whose aim is to optimize value creation for the group through investment diversification, underpinned by integrated management of a range of assets and projects complementary to the Engineering, Construction and Environment segments.
- Mota-Engil Mext: unit responsible for differentiated areas such as Real Estate, Agroforestry Production and Energy. It also aims to strengthen investment in innovation and accelerate global transformation;
- Concessions: Mota-Engil, SGPS, S.A. operates, through Lineas and its subsidiaries, a network of some 2,500 km of roads and freeways, including the two bridges of the city of Lisbon. The business extends to international markets, mainly in Latin America.
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