МиГ в настоящее время контролирует 51% акций Фазотрона, признал Председатель Совета директоров Владимир Франтцев. 10 мая Генеральным директором Фазотрона назначен Михаил Коржуев, бывший зам конструктора МиГа.
MiG Wins Control of Radar Supplier Phazotron, Chairman Says
By Lyuba Pronina
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- MiG Corp., Russia's second-biggest
combat-jet maker by order backlog, has gained control of radar supplier OAO Phazotron-NIIR Corp., winning access to new technology to include in aircraft-supply bids. The fighter-plane builder now has 51 percent of the closely held Russian radar maker, Phazotron Chairman Vladimir Frantsev said today in a phone interview. He declined to give details, including the price or investment structure, in advance of the
May 26 annual shareholders meeting. MiG is one of seven state and private Russian aerospace
companies President Vladimir Putin aims to combine into a single government-controlled planemaker called OAO Unified Aircraft Corp. Ownership of Phazotron will enable Moscow-based MiG to offer radar-production licenses as part of a multibillion-dollar bid competing with the U.S.'s Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and France's Dassault Aviation SA to sell 126 fighters to India...
Yelena Fyodorova, a spokeswoman at state-owned MiG, declined to comment on any efforts by MiG to take over the radar maker.
5,000 Employees
Moscow-based Phazotron, which became a joint stock company in 1993, develops and makes radar systems for jets, helicopters and air defense systems as well as for oil and gas companies' space-based monitoring networks. Net income under Russian standards totaled 18.5 million rubles ($685,000) on sales of 1.3 billion rubles. The company has operations in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and a workforce of more than 5,000 people, according to its Web site.
Phazotron's board on May 10 appointed Mikhail Korzhuyev, a former MiG deputy chief executive officer, to run the radar maker. MiG is prohibited from buying Phazotron directly under a
November 2002 Russian law preventing companies designated as
federal state unitary enterprises from owning subsidiaries, said
Alexandra Vasyukhnova, deputy head of corporate practice at
Vegas-Lex, a Moscow-based law firm. The planemaker's top
executives probably bought holdings in Phazotron to give MiG
indirect control, she said.
``Usually management of these companies buys shares in other
companies for themselves, a common practice in Russia,''
Vasyukhnova said.
