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A representative of the press service of the IT structure provider Selectel told ComNews about the deal. When asked whether OOO Edinaya Set (brands Servers.ru, Exepto.ru and Fozzy.ru) would work under the old brands or change its name, he replied that changes in the business model of Edinaya Set are not being discussed. "Our priority is to continue providing services to the company's clients at a high level. In what form this will be implemented is a secondary issue for us," he said.
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"The deal shows that denmark telegram large and even not very large market players are trying to diversify their service portfolios and be present in different market segments," Natalia Milchakova, a leading analyst at Freedom Finance Global, told ComNews. In her opinion, the ongoing deals show that the cloud services market is tending to become larger.

Also, a representative of the provider’s press service confirmed that the total amount of the transaction was no more than 3.1 billion rubles.

"Considering recent events, it is logical to assume that the recent placement of issue 001P-05R by the issuer could have been carried out specifically for this deal. The issuer's recent comments indicated the need for borrowed funds to expand the business - purchase real estate and equipment for the creation of new data centers," said Nikita Borodanov, an analyst at the financial group Finam. "Considering the impressive sharp growth of Selectel's financial indicators, it can be assumed that the purchase of Edinaya Set LLC will allow Selectel to maintain double-digit growth rates of financial indicators in percentage terms for a longer period of time."

The company "Edinaya Set" offers IaaS services, including dedicated server rental, as well as the creation of private and public clouds and colocation services based on partner data centers in Moscow. The provider's clients include more than 400 companies from the medium and large business segment. According to SPARK, the revenue of "Edinaya Set" in 2023 amounted to 1.2 billion rubles, and the company's projected revenue for 2024 is 1.6 billion rubles, EBITDA - 0.9 billion rubles.

"If the deal amount reported in open sources is true, then the buyer of Selectel acquired the company at a fairly high price - for two annual revenues. Most likely, Selectel invested in the share of "Edinaya Set" in the segment of dedicated servers, where the company was the third largest operator in terms of market share in 2023 with a share of 10% (according to iKS-Consulting - ComNews note ), and this is a fairly significant share," said Natalia Milchakova.

Sergey Krysenko, General Director of United Network LLC, believes that the merger with Selectel will allow the company to move to a new level of business development in terms of the range of services available to clients and the level of automation and support.

Selectel CEO Oleg Lyubimov believes that the deal will further accelerate the existing active organic growth of Selectel. "The most important task for us is to support the fault tolerance of our customers' infrastructure - for all clients of Edinaya Set LLC, the terms of service provision and guarantees for the level of service reliability will be maintained. In the future, customers will be able to expand the range of products for IT infrastructure management through additional services based on the Selectel data center network," Oleg Lyubimov noted.