Will sale and lease back help United Group or is there a much bigger story going on in the background?

08.02.2023

United Group (UG), we found out these days, is an over-indebted company that has liquidity problems, so Moodys advised it to sell part of its assets. Then there were speculations that UG would sell the telecom operator Telemach, after which N1 conveyed an unofficial denial by UG that this would not happen. It is an unusual denial, so far unrecorded in UG’s communication with the public.

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