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NATLAND Group purchased a stake in SK Slavia Praha – fotbal, a.s., on May 12, 2011, having goals in mind: to win back the licence for the first football league for the following year and to save one of the most popular Czech football clubs in a very difficult economic and legal situation.

The group managed to avert the impending death of the oldest Czech football club and to stabilize the situation. Among other things, the group solved the disputes of the former owners, bought the debt and started a restructuring of the club. This helped to stabilize the situation and to meet the conditions for obtaining the football club licence for the following year of the top football league.

In August 2011, NATLAND Group sold the rehabilitated club.

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NATLAND Group was one of the first investors in solar energy when it decided to join the Energy 21 project. NATLAND Group owned a 50 percent stake in the company. E21 became a leader in the production of electricity from renewable resources. At that time, the company operated 33 solar power plants whose total capacity reached 62 MW, which corresponded to approximately 3.3% of total installed capacity in the Czech Republic.

After a partial exit in 2010, the group decided to sell the remaining stake to the Mid Europa Partners investment fund a year later. With this step, the group ceased to operate in the field of renewable resources in the Czech Republic.

The total investment reached nearly CZK 5 billion, with the participation of all major domestic banking institutions and international banking groups.

Among other projects, the company also provides big screen public broadcasting of ice hockey world championship final games and organizes traditional Christmas and Easter markets at the Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square in Prague.

Natland Group managed the successful restructuring of cost structure, project structure, and major changes in the project team from the position of a minority shareholder. In 2013, the group sold its minority position to the majority shareholder.

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NATLAND Group, the holder of the long-term trademark of the Jan Paukert brand, is engaged in brand development to bring this special deli to more locations in the future.

Since 2007, NATLAND Group was a minority owner of Lumen Energy, a.s., which is an alternative electricity distributor. The aim of purchasing a stake in the company was to support the successful growing company in its further expansion in the Czech and Slovak markets. After a successful start of the expansion, the group sold its stake to the majority shareholder in 2008. At the end of 2014, the company was merged with another electricity distributor – E.ON Energie, a.s.

NATLAND Group started the merger of Levi International and BGS Distribution in 2006, with the aim to create a multinational entity and, together with the majority owners, to find a strategic partner.

This led to the establishment of Czech-Slovak BGS Levi Group, which distributed more than 250 brands of ICT products and offered approximately twenty thousand items for sale. It also produced its own, highly successful, brand of personal computers – LYNX.

Exit by selling to the strategic investor eD' system.

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VNPT Global Communication was established in 2008 as a joint venture of Natland Group and the Vietnamese telecommunication company VNPT. The group held up to 50 percent stake in the project before a successful exit in 2009.

Natland Group took over Prominecon Group in 2010. In the same year, it started the restructuring of Prominecon Group, that consisted mainly in defining the primary line of business, the sale of non-core activities (development projects, facility management activities) and the acquisition of teams and specialization, particularly in the field of railroad construction. A change in the structure of Prominecon Group and its new focus on constructions projects only were also parts of the restructuring. After the restructuring had been successfully completed in 2013, Natland Group sold PROMINECON CZ (former PROMINECON GROUP) to its management (management buyout).

The group purchased an 80 percent stake in Eden Sport Investments in 2011. The company's finances were the most important part of the restructuring. A divestment by selling the stake to the Kingswater Holdings Limited took place after the restructuring plan had been presented to creditors.

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Natland Group participated in the rescue of the traditional Czech basketball club from Pardubice. In 2007, it entered into the club from the position of the majority owner in order to restructure the club by changing it to a well-functioning sports company. After a successful transformation that included defining sports and business strategies, the group sold its share to minority shareholders.