Swiss Merchant Group AG has arranged a Swiss Mini Bond for Skill Solutions AG - ISIN: CH1362686268

Corporate News:
28/06/2024
Swiss Merchant Group AG will act as arranger for Skill Soluition AG from Zurich in the corporate bond issue.

Kastanienbaum, Sswitzerland June 28, 2024 - Swiss Merchant Group AG ("SMG"), a Swiss investor specializing in sustainable investments, announces that it has co-arranged the corporate bond with ISIN: CH1362686268 for Skill Solutions AG from Zurich in Switzerland.

The issuer Skill Solutions AG plans to issue an issue volume of up to CHF 8 million with an 8% coupon interest rate and a term of 5 years to qualified and semi-institutional investors such as asset managers under the FIDLEG / FINMA guidelines for smaller bond issues as part of a private placement. In close coordination with the issuer, SMG will now hold a road show and one-on-one meetings with Swiss investors in Zurich, Basel and Geneva in the primary subscription phase until July 15, 2024. Any interested parties who are identified as qualified can register for the Swiss road show directly with SMG or Skill Solutions AG.

Skill Solutions AG is a private HR technology holding company based in Zurich, Switzerland, that pursues a buy & build strategy. Skill Solutions invests in and develops companies in the areas of education, skills, active sourcing (recruiting) and technology, particularly in employee training and further education as well as human resources services and outsourcing for Swiss SMEs. This with the clear mission of relieving Swiss SME companies of costs on the human resources side and providing expertise efficiently and at the right time. This is intended to make it easier, faster and cheaper for SMEs, for whom the shortage of skilled workers is increasingly an existential threat, to retain or find the right employees or skills, through partnerships and with smart tools. Skill Solutions "time2learn", the basic education platform of Skill Solutions, was founded 20 years ago in Switzerland. Within the last 2 years, a total of 4 companies from the fields of education, active sourcing and technology were acquired and have since been successfully consolidated under its own roof.

In the field of basic education, Skill Solutions is now the market leader with its time2learn platform and serves around 10,000 (SME) customers.

Skill Solutions plans to finance further growth in Switzerland by issuing its own corporate bonds.

Sandro De Luca, CEO and founder of Skill Solutions AG: "We are pleased to have now opened up to the Swiss capital market with our first own corporate bond in order to be able to provide the Swiss SME market with even better opportunities in the areas of human resources, skills and technology in the future. “

Cristian Mantzke, CIO of Swiss Merchant Group AG: “The fact that Skill Solutions has engaged us as arranger for their bond issue is a special certificate of quality for us, also to continue our own successful strategy in setting up and supporting Swiss SME companies and in issuing Swiss Mini Bonds. We are pleased to be able to contribute to the success of Skill Solutions and to supporting the Swiss SME market in the future.”

About Swiss Merchant Group AG

Swiss Merchant Group AG (“SMG”) is a private investment company that carries out capital market transactions in its own name and on its own account, as well as subscriptions and underwritings for government and corporate bonds, and invests in and deinvests in them.
Furthermore, SMG offers various related services such as arranging ECM / DCM capital market transactions with SMG's currently set up 142 banking and securities trading bank lines, which also includes the arranging, setting up & financing of FINMA / FIDLEG regulated Swiss Mini Bonds (SMBs) from Swiss issuers.

SMG was founded 17 years ago in 2007 in Zug, Switzerland and has been domiciled in Kastanienbaum in the canton of Lucerne since 2022.

Contact:
Swiss Merchant Group AG
Villa “Krämerstein”
St. Niklauserstrasse 59
CH-6047 Kastanienbaum
Central Desk + 41 41 511 37 00
info@swissmerchantgroup.com
2315725D GR
1395605D SW



Contact:
Swiss Merchant Group AG
Michael Zuckerman
info@swissmerchantgroup.com
+ 41 41 511 37 00