Pardubice 18 January 2007
The financial group Profireal provided its clients in 2006 with borrowings and loans in the total amount of 2,92 milliard CZC. Thus contrary to the year 2005, in which the provided loans were in the amount of 2,37 milliard CZC, a 23 % increase was noticed by Profireal. “We have noticed some further increase of the mediating loans volume in 2006, especially with the private clients. More than 55 thousand clients agreed to take a loan at our company. We do express our contentment with increase thereof in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. We have also expanded into further markets. We have established Profireal in Bulgaria and provided some initiatory loans at the end of the year. We have been aiming for further European countries this year,” results were commented by David Chour, Profireal Group Board of Directors Chairman. Profireal reached the maximum loans volume in the Czech Republic, in which it has been running its activities since 1995. The manufacture was increased in the last year with 20 % and the total amount of provided loans was 1,65 milliard CZC. Slovak Profireal branch was doing even better from the increase outlook, which was increased in 2006 with 55 % and which provided the total amount of loans in the amount of 756 million CZC. More moderate increase was noticed by Profireal in Poland. There were loans in the total amount of 515 million CZC. Even the first loan was provided by Profireal in Bulgaria on the beginning of November 2006. They reached the loans volume in a nearly amount of two millions till the end of the year. Profireal division, dealing with retail debts purchase, was increasing even more rapidly. It was administering debts in the year 2005 in the total amount of 274 millions CZC; the amount of purchased debts reached the level of 1,1 milliard CZC in the course of the year 2006. “Merely one year was essential for us to reach the cumulated volume of purchased debts in their nominal value of one milliard Czech Crowns. Thus we joint the group of the most successful companies of that field. Likewise we applied our know-how in a successful way into the field of such debts payment. We aim for a further scope to be a credible partner in such problematic debts solving method,” Profireal division results were evaluated by the Head Director Ing. Karol Jurák. Profidebt division is one of the largest companies dealing with retail debts purchase in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. It is the partner of banks and large corporations, such as GE Money Bank, Živnostenská banka, Raiffeisenbank, Pozemkový fond ČR, Správa kreditných kariet, Tatrabanka, Poštová banka or Slovak Telekom. The financial group Profireal Group deals with provision of loans and borrowings either for private persons, as well as for traders. It has been expanding in a significant way for the last five years. After the opening of its branch in Slovakia in 2001, loans sale initiation followed in Poland in 2004; and Profireal sold its first loan even in Bulgaria in 2006. Profidebt, as the integral of the financial group Profireal Group dealing with retail debts purchase, has been acting in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia.