Mongolia Growth Group Ltd.
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2019, 2020)
Reporting Period: 2019
Environmental Metrics
Social Achievements
- Created a 3rd party agency business that produced approximately $97,000 of revenue during the second half of 2019 (14% of our revenue in Mongolia).
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Sub-par (negative) returns on capital.
- Difficulty extracting capital from Mongolia.
- Lethargic Mongolian economy.
- Extreme financial strain on tenants due to government measures to combat Coronavirus.
- Reduced liquidity in the market, particularly for larger property assets.
- Poor performance of securities portfolio over the past eighteen months.
- Inability to identify a business with positive cash flow for investment outside Mongolia.
- Operating losses (excluding potential gains from our public securities portfolio) for the foreseeable future.
Mitigation Strategies
- Dramatically reduced offering prices of assets to increase sales.
- Aggressively marketed properties at attractive prices.
- Repaid USD $500,000 of debt with a top-4 Mongolian bank.
- Focus on selling non-core property assets to diversify the business and invest in something with economic returns.
- Repurchased 107,500 shares under Normal Course Issuer Bid.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Period: 2020
Environmental Metrics
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns heavily impacted tenants' businesses, leading to reduced rental revenue and a halt in the third-party sales and leasing business.
- Declining Mongolian economy.
- Currency fluctuations (Mongolian Tögrög depreciation against the Canadian dollar).
- Difficulty converting Mongolian Tögrög to US dollars.
- Increased use of barter transactions in the Mongolian economy.
- Potential for property assets to be confiscated by the government or stolen.
Mitigation Strategies
- Offered discounts to tenants.
- Focused on reducing costs in Mongolia and extending liquidity.
- Sold non-core property assets to fund working capital needs and potential acquisitions.
- Developed a data-analytics service (KEDM) to diversify revenue streams.
- Invested in publicly traded securities as a liquid alternative to cash.
- Continued to monitor and evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on property prices and the Mongolian economy.