On March 6, 2012 UAB MAXIMA GRUPĖ, UAB (Lithuania) has announced completion of transaction to acquire a 100% stake in ALDIK NOVA (Poland), which manages the shopping centre chain ALDIK in Liublin and Podkarpackie (Subcarpathian) Voivodeships (Provinces) in Poland.

MAXIMA GRUPĖ in total took over 21 shops of the chain, a bakery and a pastry-making unit. Overall the area of ALDIK shops is over 25 000 sq. meters; the company employs 700 people. 

MAXIMA GRUPĖ, UAB, is a controlling company registered in 2007; it manages retail companies in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Poland, which include 485 shopping centers MAXIMA X, MAXIMA XX, MAXIMA XXX, T-MARKET, T-MARKET EXPRESS and ALDIK: there are 220 of these in Lithuania, 136 in Latvia, 66 in Estonia, 42 in Bulgaria and 21 in Poland. All the companies under MAXIMA GRUPĖ, UAB management employ over 28 thousand employees in all the countries.

BIC Securities acted as a financial advisor (in cooperation with local partner in Poland) to MAXIMA GRUPĖ.