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

EQS-News: Swiss Merchant Group AG / Key word(s): Bond/Issue of Debt
Swiss Merchant Group AG has arranged a Swiss Mini Bond for Skill Solutions
AG - ISIN: CH1362686268 (news with additional features)

28.06.2024 / 09:56 CET/CEST
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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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


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   Language:       English
   Company:        Swiss Merchant Group AG
                   St Niklausenstrasse 59
                   6047 Kastanienbaum
                   Switzerland
   Phone:          +41 41 511 37 00
   E-mail:         info@swissmerchantgroup.com
   Internet:       www.swissmerchantgroup.com
   ISIN:           CH0323874260, CH1299689237
   WKN:            A1817G, A3LPB2
   Listed:         Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf,
                   Frankfurt
   EQS News ID:    1935243

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