Companies@UA: База компаний Украины

Kyiv, July 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The sale of a 25% plus one share stake in energy supply company OJSC Poltavaoblenergo scheduled for July 29 has been postponed because of a lack of bids, the press service of the State Property Fund (SPF) has told Interfax-Ukraine.

It is now planned to conduct the sale on August 5, according to the SPF.

The fund has several times postponed the sale of 55.24 million shares in Poltavaoblenergo because of a lack of bids.

The initial price of the stake is set at UAH 307.687 million.

As reported, the SPF planned to sell by late May blocking stakes in six regional energy supply companies on stock exchanges. A stake in Lvivoblenergo was sold on April 29 on the Kyiv-based Innex stock exchange for UAH 197.852 million to the TEKT-Trade Company, and a stake in OJSC Chernihivoblenergo was sold on May 14 to On-line Capital Ltd. for UAH 223.423 million.

According to the SPF, a 25.02% stake in Prykarpattiaoblenergo and a 25.01% stake in Sumyoblenergo are also to be sold. A tender for the sale of a 25.01% stake in Odesaoblenergo has been suspended, as National JSC Energy Company of Ukraine has not passed the company's shares to the SPF.