Film Studio “Soyuzmultfilm” has changed the status of a joint-stock company, the owner of 100 percent of shares is called the Federal Property Management Agency. This is about this with reference to the registration of changes on August 16 in the tax authorities write “Vedomosti”.
The press service of the organization confirmed the information, adding that the Board of Directors is currently being formed. The representative of Soyuzmultfilm indicated that in the future, 75 percent of the company’s shares will be put up for sale.
Thus, the current decision was the beginning of preparation for the privatization of the studio. The state suggests to leave 25 percent of the shares. The authorized capital of the company amounted to almost 1.2 billion rubles.
“Soyuzmultfilm” was founded in 1936. It is wanted to privatize it since 2009, but the process has always been postponed. At the end of 2020, revenue, as follows from the data of Spark, the studio amounted to 338 million rubles, loss – 42 million rubles.
However, the company claim that revenue, taking into account the subsidy to new projects last year reached a billion rubles. Currently, the main income of the studio receives from licensed fees from rights to Soviet cartoons and new projects.
As the media wrote, the main complexity in privatization remains exclusive rights to cartoons of the Soviet period. The Federal Property Management Agency wants all the work of the studio from 1950 to 2003 to become the property of the State Fund (created until 1950 has the status of public domain), which will significantly reduce the company’s cost.
previously became known that the Ministry of Finance began to discuss the privatization of the “national payment card system” (NSPK), which is the world map operator. Prior to this, the Central Bank said that she was preparing for the sale of the Bank “Opening”.