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Rail has the power to shape how societies grow, connect, and decarbonise. At Alstom, we turn this potential into reality, moving over 100 million people daily with safe, smart, and sustainable mobility solutions.

Severstal remains a global leader in efficiency, with the highest EBITDA margin in the steel industry globally, positive free cash flow generation throughout the cycle and a track record of achieving its targets. To deliver additional growth, the Company has updated its already proven strategy - retaining its fundamental advantages but adding new elements. Severstal's new vision is to be a leader of the steel industry of the future and the first choice for its customers, employees and partners. To achieve this, the Company is setting out new strategic priorities to distance itself further from its competitors. These are: superior client experience, cost leadership and embracing new opportunities. All three will be supported by Severstal's advanced corporate culture. Superior client experience - Severstal aims to offer our customers unique selling propositions on each target market; Cost leadership - Severstal's goal is to achieve a significant cost advantage in basic steel products; New opportunities - Severstal's objective is to access and consequently benefit from the use of global cutting-edge technology and new business-models. Implementing this set of objectives will support the Company in reaching its financial target of increasing EBITDA by 10-15% annually for the next 5 years. (This excludes pricing/macro factors.)

AVTOVAZ is one of the largest automobile plants in Eastern Europe, the leader of Russian automotive industry. Its production capacities let it produce up to 800 000 vehicles per year. AVTOVAZ products are passenger vehicles for mass production; price range is from 279 000 to 500 000 rubles. All AVTOVAZ vehicles are produced in accordance with the ecological standard “Euro-4”, and for the export to EEC countries in accordance with the standard “Euro-5”. AVTOVAZ occupies more than 600 hectares; area of buildings belonging to the company is more than 4 Mio. sq m. AVTOVAZ workshops contain tens of thousands of units of facilities; length of assembly lines is 300 km, length of the main assembly line is 1.5 km. At the present time about 68 thou. of people are working at JSC “AVTOVAZ”, average age of whom is 40 years. Including personnel of service and sales companies and suppliers of components, well-being of more than 4 millions of Russian people depends on AVTOVAZ stable functioning. 270 companies supply AVTOVAZ main assembly line with components and materials. Into the maintenance system of vehicles more than 370 companies throughout Russia are involved. AVTOVAZ is an equal partner of RENAULT – NISSAN – AVTOVAZ concern. By 2020 1 200 000 of passenger vehicles under LADA, RENAULT and NISSAN brands – 9 models on unified platforms – will be produced at AVTOVAZ production areas.