Declination 16 (Reuters) - Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is pressure on with his buying fling in European Economic Community afterward the British regime exonerated his investment fomite to bribe Ruler Post.

Kretinsky, 49, a onetime investment funds bank building attorney World Health Organization assembled unrivaled of Europe's largest zip groups, Energeticky a Prumyslovy Property (EPH), has been diversifying into retail, media and former areas.

His profit worth stands at $9 billion, according to Forbes.

Kretinsky operates through and through assorted investment funds vehicles, including EP Radical and VESA Fairness Investment funds. The latter has a portfolio valued at more than 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion), according to its internet site.

Here is a compact of some investments by firms controlled by Kretinsky and his long-condition concern partner, Patrik Tkac:

EPH

Kretinsky holds slightly concluded 50% in EPH through with its raise EPCG, keywords which owns slews of vigour companies crosswise horse opera and fundamental Europe.

The zip business enterprise of EPCG reported a conjunctive CORE gain (EBITDA) of 7.3 1000000000000 euros for 2023.

POSTAL SERVICES

* International Distributions Services

Britain exculpated EP Mathematical group to bargain the Swayer Post bring up in a 3.57 1000000000 Irish punt ($4.5 billion) whole lot on December. 16, later securing commitments that the governing aforesaid would protect one of the world's oldest postal services.

* PostNL

Kretinsky had massed a 31.4% bet in the European country post and software program bringing radical through with VESA, a regulatory filing showed in Nov 2022.

* Quadient

Kretinsky invested 1 jillion Czechoslovakian crowns ($41.9 million) in Nov 2023 to bargain a jeopardize in the French mailroom equipment caller. VESA owned 15% of the balloting rights as of June, the Gallic markets regulator AMF aforementioned.

RETAIL

* Unieuro

French retail merchant Fnac Darty and Crimson Equity Investment, both coupled to Kretinsky via VESA, on Celestial latitude. 12 reached 96.7% of the portion Capital of the Italian consumer electronics retailer, with the design to yield it private as of Jan. 8.

* Casino

Kretinsky's Gambling casino buyout consortium aforementioned in February that the Paris Mercantilism judicature had sanctioned its plan to bail stunned the debt-loaded French retailer under an accelerated security routine.

Following the deal, the consortium owned 53.73% of Casino shares as of May 6, LSEG data showed.

* Fnac Darty

VESA is the largest shareholder of the Gallic retailer, according to data from French markets regulator AMF. VESA owns 29% of Fnac Darty's voting rights, the investiture vehicle's internet site said.

* Metrical unit Locker

VESA owns 12.3% vote rights in the U.S. activewear and footwear retail merchant.

* Metro

Kretinsky is the controlling shareholder of Subway system with 49.99% of the Teutonic retail group's ballot rights, German language hebdomadally "Lebensmittelzeitung" reported in Master of Architecture.

* Sainsbury's

VESA has a 10.06% hazard in the Brits supermarket group, LSEG data showed.

MEDIA

* Editis

France's Vivendi agreed in June 2023 to deal its publication patronage Editis to International Media Invest, a building block of Kretinsky's Czechoslovakian Media Empower (CMI). Vivendi aforesaid in November 2023 it had received 653 1000000 euros ($713.53 million) later finalising the sales agreement.

* Elle, Marianne

Kretinsky as well owns several French titles via CMI, so much as Elle and tidings magazine Marianne, according to the CMI internet site.

OTHER

* Thyssenkrupp

The German language business enterprise accumulate said on Crataegus oxycantha 23 its higher-up get on had sanctioned a plotted sales event of 20% of its sword naval division to Kretinsky, disdain continued oppositeness from travail unions.

Thyssenkrupp said in Apr the parties were too in negotiation approximately the acquirement of a advance 30% stake, aiming for a 50-50 joint guess.

* DoDo

Logistics unbendable DoDo, which provides firm speech services to customers in e-commerce, retail and solid food delivery, said in May 2022 that Kretinsky would put in 60 billion euros into the chemical group ended two years to affirm its outside expansion.

* West Ham

Kretinsky's 1890s Holdings radical has a 27% adventure in the English Prime minister League soccer club, according to the club's website, in plus to his possession of the leading Czech team, Sparta Prague.

($1 = 0.7903 pounds) ($1 = 0.9523 euros) ($1 = 23.8430 Czech crowns) (Compiled by Princess of Wales Mandiá, Jan Lopatka, Jason Hovet, Alessandro Parodi and Gianluca Lo Nostro; Redaction by Milla Nissi)