Over the first year since the bond issuance, AP-Trade Group has achieved breakthrough changes despite the unstable economic situation in the country. Changes have affected both the existing distribution business—with revenue growth driven by shipments to new territories in the European part of Russia (+19% in the first half of 2024), and new ventures. This year, AP-Trade Group became a franchisee of the Burger King restaurant chain with plans to open 17 restaurants across the Russian Far East. At the same time, the company has managed to contain its debt burden—the Debt/EBITDA ratio stood at 3.97 in September 2024—and to manage interest rate risks, with 94% of the group's loan portfolio covered by hedging agreements. In just 9 months of 2024, the group received 62 million rubles in compensation under current interest rate insurance agreements. The financial result of the issuer, OO ILS, for the first 9 months of 2024 exceeded the entire 2023 result by 2.5 times. The credit rating upgrade to RUB+ with a stable outlook indicates that the Expert RA rating agency highly values external risks of further increases in the Central Bank's key rate rather than the actions and performance of AP-Trade Group.