Company Description

 
 
 

TriGranit, a distinguished entity within the Revetas Group, emerges as a premier real estate development platform in Central Europe. With over two decades of expertise, it boasts an unparalleled record in creating prime and sustainable real estate projects that serve as community landmarks. In its rich history, TriGranit has developed nearly 50 iconic projects, encompassing a total of 1.7 million square meters of Gross Leasable Area (GLA) across seven Central and Eastern European countries. This impressive portfolio has garnered the company over 50 prestigious international awards, a testament to its excellence and leadership in the field.

TriGranit’s strategic focus is centered on developing mixed-use ‘City Center’ projects, along with office and retail spaces in key urban locations. This approach positions the company as a pivotal force in shaping the urban landscape of Central Europe. Through its commitment to prime, sustainable office, and alternative real estate developments, TriGranit has not only contributed significantly to the real estate domain but has also played a critical role in urban revitalization and sustainable development.

In essence, TriGranit stands as a paragon in the real estate development sector, distinguished by its comprehensive services, a commanding presence in the Central European market, and a steadfast dedication to fostering sustainable and transformative urban development projects.

Revetas Capital is a pan-European real estate investment advisor pursuing a thematic approach focused on value-add investments that may be entangled in special situations. The firm’s leadership has been operating in Europe for the past 25 years and Revetas has been a leader in Central European real estate for over a decade. The team has successfully navigated multiple economic and investment cycles and built Revetas into a fully integrated real estate platform covering investment, asset, development, and property management. Full alignment with investors, coupled with a strong focus on sustainability, is at the core of the firm’s success.

2.5

BILLION EURO

WORLD-CLASS

PORTFOLIO

1.7

MILLION SQM OF GLA

DEVELOPED IN TWO

DECADES

50

PROJECTS

COMPLETED IN 7

COUNTRIES

600

MILLION EUR

IN THE PIPELINE IN

CENTRAL EUROPE

50+

HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS,

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

Corporate identity package

Management

Tom Lisiecki

Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Board

Mr. Lisiecki has more than 20 years of professional experience in the real estate sector working at property development companies. After completing his university degree at the University of Toronto in economics and finance, he joined TriGranit Polska in 2004 helding several positions at TriGranit. He worked as commercial manager of the residential project Debowe Tarasy in Katowice, and then he was promoted to development director of the B4B office project in Krakow (2007). He served as country director Poland from 2008 and he later the Chief Development Officer of TGD and Managing Director and the President of the Board of Directors of the company’s Polish affiliate. After TPG’s acquisition of TriGranit, in 2015, Mr. Lisiecki became the Chief Investment Officer of the corporation. Before rejoining TriGranit in 2019, he worked for CityCon in Stockholm for 2 years as Chief Development Officer.

Mr. Lisiecki was involved on all TriGranit’s projects in Poland: Silesia City Center and 1000 apartments complex Oak Tearraces (Debowe Tarasy) in Katowice, Bonarka City Center and Bonarka for Business (B4B – 7 class A office towers) in Krakow and the integrated transport, entertainment and commercial hub of Poznan, the Poznan City Center. Mr. Lisiecki is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management and WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Eric Assimakopoulos

Revetas Capital
Chairman of the Board

Mr. Assimakopoulos founded Revetas and is the Managing Partner of Revetas Capital Advisors LLP and has over 28 years’ experience in the real estate sector.

Mr. Assimakopoulos has broad knowledge of Central and Eastern European markets and has been investing in the region for over 15 years. He has led the acquisition and development of c. €1.5 billion of real estate across the US and Europe over the last 20 years.

Mr. Assimakopoulos started his career building the Gnome Group, Inc from a small design build firm to one of the top engineering and development companies in the telecommunications sector during the mid-1990’s. The group was one of the leaders in inside plant engineering, building some of the most advanced data centers and telecommunications networks across the US and Europe.

In 1999, Mr. Assimakopoulos partnered with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds (MSREF) to form Metronexus, a technology driven real estate fund. As Chairman and CEO he was responsible for the acquisition and development of over USD300 million of property covering over 3 million square feet in the US and Europe.

In 2002 Mr. Assimakopoulos led the acquisition of several major sale and lease back transactions with the Belgian ministry of finance and a KKR portfolio company (Tenovis).

In 2003 Mr. Assimakopoulos launched Bifrost Investment group as a platform to invest in CEE and has consummated transactions with large corporates including Suez Tractebel, Intesa Sanpaolo Bank (VUB Bank), HVB Bank and Patron Capital.

Since 2009, he has actively developed a platform to restructure and recapitalise distressed real estate in CEE, leading to the formation of Revetas Capital. Since then, Mr. Assimakopoulos successfully invested in, restructured and recapitalised c. €1.1 billion worth of real estate in the region.

Senior Executives

Bálint Brenner

Finance Manager

Bálint Brenner has more than 17 years of professional experience working in finance and financial planning. He graduated from the Budapest University of Economic Science and the Corvinus University of Budapest with a degree majoring in Corporate Finance, specialising in Governmental Policy and Management.

Bálint started his career back in 2006 at IBM Hungary International Shared Service Center as a Finance Planning intern, where afterwards he has been promoted to Planning Analyst. He worked at IBM until 2009, when he decided to continue his career at Citibank International Plc as Financial Reporting Analyst. His main tasks and responsibilities were very diversified and included the preparation of the financial regulatory returns for Western Europe legal entities in accordance with local regulatory (FSA) requirements, and the production and delivery of daily, monthly and quarterly statistical and regulatory reporting returns.

In 2011, he decided to seek new challenges in a different sector and joined Reader’s Digest Publishing House as a Business Analyst, and stayed at the publisher until 2018. At Reader’s Digest, Bálint was responsible for daily and monthly financial planning, transactions and reporting, and acted as a link between the Finance and Marketing departments by representing the financial aspect within Marketing.

Since 2018, Bálint has been helping TriGranit’s financial prosperity as the Finance Manager and also acts as the Managing Director of Duna Kongresszus Ltd, where he is responsible for every aspect of the financial forecasting, planning, transactions and reporting.

Bálint speaks English and German fluently.

 

Csaba Borbély

Project Director, TriGranit Hungary

Csaba Borbély has been working as the Project Director of TriGranit since 2020. Csaba has 25 years of experience specializing in large scale projects (construction of factories, schools, residential and office buildings, as well as airport reconstructions) with a proven track record of planning, managing and delivering projects on time, within planned budget.

Csaba graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1998 and holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering. Csaba started his career at Magyar Építő Plc in 1998 and worked on projects like the Richter Gedeon Pharmacy Factory’s expansion and renovation, the Globe 13 Office Building’s construction as a site engineer and Budapest-Ferihegy Airport Terminal One’s reconstruction as a site manager. In 2005, Csaba continued his career at Arcadom Építőipari Plc, and helped realizing projects like the greatest residential project in the 13th District, the Marina Part Residential Park’s second phase, as well as the Telenor’s HQ Building as a project manager. Later, he has joined Narva Építő Ltd, where he was – among others – the project manager of Budapest Aria Hotel. In 2015, he continued his career at Laterex Építő Plc, where he was the first engineer of Palatinus’ Main Building’s reconstruction, construction of the new Szentlélek Church in Veresegyház, construction of the new Tennis Central in Óbuda and acted as the production director of the Hungarian Dance Academy’s expansion and reconstruction. In 2019, he participated in the construction of the Duna Medical Center private hospital at Universal Builders Ltd as a project manager.

Csaba joined TriGranit in 2020, where he became the Project Director and commenced working on the company’s biggest project at the time – the Millennium Gardens office complex – which’s first phase he successfully completed in 2022.
Csaba is native in Hungarian and speaks English fluently.

Robert Kowalski

Project Director, TriGranit Poland

Robert Kowalski, Project Director at TriGranit Poland, has 27 years professional experience in the construction industry, holding various positions at construction and development companies.

In addition to his degree in civil engineering, he also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Kraków University of Economics. Prior to joining TriGranit, he worked for well-known international construction companies, such as Strabag or Sunley Polska. For a couple of years he was the Deputy Development Director of Kraków Municipal Development Agency, responsible for projects financed by EBRD/EIB and also worked for a local developer, SuperKrak (where he managed the construction works of, among others, Kraków Aquapark). Throughout his career, he was a person co-responsible for the execution of office buildings of Bonarka for Business, shopping centres BCC and SSC in Katowice, hypermarkets of Tesco and Lidl, industrial plants and local and national highways (including flyovers and tunnels).

Mr. Kowalski joined TriGranit 17 years ago. Throughout his career, he has been the Project Manager of Bonarka Residential and Bonarka Offices in Kraków, and he was the Deputy Construction Manager of the whole Bonarka City Center.

Mr. Kowalski speaks native Polish and fluent English.

Carmen Michaela Ianu

Head of Construction and Program Management

Carmen Michaela Ianu is the Head of Construction and Program Management at TriGranit with almost 40 years of experience specializing in large scale projects with proven track record of planning, managing and delivering projects within planned budget and deadlines.

She is experienced in all main areas of project delivery: estimating, planning, procurement, construction and project management, cost engineering and cost control, contracts and claims management. Her experience is outstandingly diverse and international: she has been working in Europe, the Middle East, and the GCC region throughout her career. Carmen has also gained experience in projects financed by EU and the World Bank, therefore she is very familiar with several types of contracts used in the construction industry (including all FIDIC types of contracts from 1999 Editions onwards).

Regarding her education, Carmen holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering (graduated “Magna Cum Laude”) from USAMV Bucharest, Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering. She completed several further specialised trainings, as a special training in organizing the activity on construction sites, a special training in programming and using personal computers in design, engineering and planning activities, and a training in Local Administration and Civil & Commercial Law.

Carmen has a long track record working for TriGranit: between 2006 and 2012 she was the Project and Construction Manager, as well as Technical Coordinator of TriGranit Development Corporation. In 2012, she has decided to seek new challenges in her career and after years spent in the Middle East working on strategic, large scale projects, she rejoined TriGranit in 2019 as the Head of Construction and Program Management.

Carmen has excellent communication skills and speaks various languages – she is fluent in Romanian, English and French with a good command of Spanish and has a basic knowledge of Italian and German.

Katalin Kézdy

Senior Architect, Design Manager

Katalin Kézdy graduated as Architect from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1980. After graduation, she started to work as an architect designer at TTI where she spent 11 years. Meanwhile (in 1983), she worked for a year in  Algeria. Later, as a lead architect, she worked at BUVÁTI (1991-1995) and at HAP (1995-1998).

She joined TriGranit 25 years ago, in February 1998, and became the Design Manager of one of TriGranit’s flagship projects, WestEnd City Center in Budapest. Between 2000-2008 she returned to HAP, where, as a lead architect, she designed several types of buildings throughout the years, e.g. a cultural center with a theater, an art school and swimming pool, pharmaceutical factories (GSK and TEVA), office buildings, and residential buildings (from family houses to large condominiums).  She rejoined TriGranit in 2008 and worked as Design Manager abroad on TriGranit’s projects for more than 4  years, also as a team leader (in Poland – Kraków, Bonarka Shopping Center; in Croatia – Zagreb (on Arena Shopping Center), and in Slovenia – Ljubljana (on Emonika City Center). She was also in charge of the design works of the Arena Office Center in Zagreb and the Lakeside II Office Building in Bratislava and currently, she is the design manager of the Millennium Gardens Office Building in Budapest.

Katalin speaks several languages: English, French and Italian fluently and Polish and Croatian on a conversational level.

Anna Krztoń

Leasing Director

Anna Krztoń joined TriGranit in September 2012 as a Leasing Manager, and became the Leasing Director of the company in July 2022.

Ms. Krztoń is responsible for the leasing management of Bonarka for Business (“B4B”), one of the largest office complex in Kraków with a total GLA of 75,000 sqm, coordinating B4B’s marketing activities and its tenant relationship program.

Ms. Krztoń has more than 16 years of professional experience in the commercial real estate sector and worked for international companies throughout her career. She has a comprehensive knowledge of leasing processes, asset management, launching projects,  implementing new initiatives and strategies, and possesses outstanding negotiation skills.

Prior to joining TriGranit, Anna worked several years for a Spanish developer and construction company – Aldesa – where she helped the firm launch their first Class A office project in Poland as the Leasing and Administration Manager and also worked for Colliers on the Kraków market as Licensed Office Property Manager.

Throughout her career at TriGranit, Ms. Krztoń has been involved in asset management support for B4B (building strategies, initiating project improvements, as a result implementing the tenant relationship program – being the first on the Kraków market at this scale), on which she has been working ever since. Moreover, she was responsible for the Silesia for Business (“S4B”) project in Katowice in terms of processes that were necessary in launching the project. Ms. Krztoń is therefore not only an expert of the Kraków office market, but also has a comprehensive knowledge of the Katowice office market. Ms. Krztoń is therefore not only an expert of the Kraków office market, but also has a comprehensive knowledge of the Katowice office market.

Ms. Krztoń graduated from the University of Rzeszów with a degree in Economics. In the meantime, she also studied at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Spain. She has also finished postgraduate studies in the field of Journalism at WSE (Tischnera) in Kraków and in Property Management at AGH in Kraków.

Ms. Krztoń is a native Polish speaker and also speaks English and Spanish fluently.

Károly Dömötör Makk

Head of Leasing

Károly Dömötör Makk graduated with a BA (Hons) degree from International Business School of Budapest (affiliate of the Oxford Brookes University), following his studies in Toronto, Canada, where he received the International Baccalaurate and the Ontario Scholar title.

Mr. Makk started his career at A1 Immobillien AG before the GFC took place, focusing mainly on office and retail investments. Later on, he joined the Investment Team of previously known DTZ, but as the Financial Crisis began to take hold in Europe, he turned to the media sector. He was active here for over 10 years, working for the largest Hungarian news portal, Index.hu. He was responsible for direct sales and the FMCG sector, resulting in a vast network of clientale.

In 2019, Mr. Makk decided to return to the real estate sector and revived his career at CE LAND Holding as a Leasing Advisor. He spent almost a year here and actively took part in the leasing processes of previous TriGranit development, Millennium Towers I.

Shortly afterwards, he joined TriGranit as a Leasing Manager, where after only 2.5 years he was appointed Head of Leasing in the summer of 2022. Mr. Makk is responsible for the overall leasing activity of Millennium Gardens office building, as well as the management of TriGranit’s tenant relationship program.

History

Within its 25 years, TriGranit kept its leading position in the region and is considered to be among the top real estate companies in Europe. TriGranit is focusing primarily on quality retail and Class “A” office buildings in strategic urban locations, and manages a full spectrum of real estate activities including investment, acquisition, development, construction, as well as property and asset management. Since the company’s foundation, it has completed award winning development projects with a total value of 2.5 billion euros. Currently, the company has a pipeline of over 600 million euros of developments in 5 capitals and 10 cities in the Central European region.
  • 2022

    Handover of Millennium Gardens in Budapest
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    Millennium Gardens office building’s first tower will be handed over, second tower in shell-and-core status, totalling 37,000 sqm in Budapest. TriGranit is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
  • 2018

    TriGranit was acquired by Revetas Capital
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    TriGranit was acquired from TPG by REVETAS, new shared ownership. Revetas and TriGranit aims to align in the future Revetas’ outstanding investment, acquisition, and fund management know-how with TriGranit’s more than 20 years of development experience to create further exceptional, REAL estates on the Central European real estate market. New developments: Millennium Gardens office building with 37.000 sqm in Budapest (Construction), Building H (Constr.), I, J in B4B with 30.000 sqm in Krakow, and Silesia Office Towers in Katowice, 40,000 sqm (Prep.).
  • 2017

    TRIGRANIT’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY
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    TriGranit is celebrating its 20 years in business.
  • 2016

    Record transactions in Hungary and Poland
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    In 2016, TriGranit completed two market defining transactions in Hungary and Poland by selling two of his successful retail and office developments. In September, the company completed the sale of Bonarka City Center (BCC) in Krakow to Rockcastle. The transaction was the largest transaction on the 2016 Polish real estate market. Just some weeks after it, TriGranit sold Millennium Towers in Budapest, a Class A 70,400 sqm complex, comprised of four office buildings within the Millennium City Center in Budapest, Hungary, for €175 million. The transaction is one of the largest ever office deals in the Hungarian market, by both value and gross leasable area. Meanwhile, the next tower, Building “F” was handed over adding 10 000 sqm GLA to the Krakow office market.
  • 2015

    New ERA begins – TriGranit-TPG Real Estate deal
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    A new milestone in the life of the company. TPG Real Estate, the real estate platform of global private investment firm TPG, purchased TriGranit. Under the terms of the agreement, TPG Real Estate acquired TriGranit’s development and asset management platform as well as a portfolio of the full Polish, Slovakian and part of the Hungarian and Croatian high-quality assets. The aim of TPGRE, with further capital injection, is to create the CEE region’s leading real estate investment, development and management platform The company in the meantime continuously delivered projects, opened another two office towers in Krakow, the B4B buildings “E” & “D”.
  • 2013

    TriGranit projects reached a total value of over 2.5 billion euros
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    TriGranit delivered buildings “C” & “D” of the Class „A” B4B Office Tower in Krakow. As a result, the company has so far completed projects with a total value of over 2.5 billion euros. The company continued its success with the delivery of two projects in Poland. Poznan City Center, a 58,000 sqm GLA shopping and entertainment centre, which is an integral part of the city’s new commercial and transportation hub was opened.
  • 2012

    the first PPP project in Poland, the Poznan Central Railway station
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    The Poznan Central Railway station was constructed and opened in Poland. The railway station was the first phase of a multiple development of Poznan’s new city center. Later phases are a retail center, offices, apartments.
  • 2011

    The development of the new city center in Krakow continues on – delivery of Bonarka for Business Offices
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    Krakow, the Bonarka for Business (B4B) office complex. Buildings “A” & “B” were handed over. The will project consists of nine Class “A” office buildings. Meanwhile, another building was added to Millennium City Center in Budapest, the K&H Group Headquarters.
  • 2010

    Second project in Zagreb completed, Arena centar
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    TriGranit completed its second Zagreb-based project, which was named Arena Centar.
  • 2009

    Record investment in Poland, another city center project opens
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    The development of Bonarka City Center in Krakow was completed. This year TriGranit’s investments in Poland alone amounted to 600 million euros. (Arena Zagreb, a modern sports arena with a capacity of 15,000 seats, was built in Zagreb.)
  • 2008

    Despite the economic crisis, TriGranit continues on unbroken track record with further developments
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    The nearly 100-meter tall Lakeside Park office complex was developed. It is one of the highest buildings in the city. Its quality solutions make it the most modern building in Slovakia. The Millennium City Center in Budapest was extended with the Millennium Towers II & III office buildings.
  • 2007

    First project in Romania
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    The company commenced several projects abroad, it delivered Polus Center Cluj shopping centre in Cluj-Napoca. The investment defined the entire image of the district of the Transylvanian “capital”.
  • 2006

    Further office development and opening toward leisure assets
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    A new building was added to Budapest’s office market with the development of Millennium Tower I. The company’s approach regarding effective operation was applied to this building as well, which consequently received the Green Building Award. (TriGranit took over the property management of Papp László Budapest Sportaréna)
  • 2005

    Great year for the company, delivered three different type of projects
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    The Palace of Arts was developed, which houses the Ludwig Museum, the Festival Theatre and the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall. In the year of its opening, the Palace of Arts became the best cultural facility in Europe. Along with WestEnd, this was TriGranit’s second building to win "the Oscar of architecture", the FIABCI award. TriGranit demonstrated its intellectual and market power when, in parallel with the delivery of the Palace of Arts, contructed the Duna-Pest Residences in Budapest, a 300 unit luxury apartment complex on the bank of the Danube. In November the Silesia City Center in Katowice was opened. The centre was built on the site of an old, long-closed mine and TriGranit raised a chapel alongside the building in memory of the miners. TriGranit was among the first companies to join the Green Building Programme, established by the European Commission, which awards eco-friendly buildings. Silesia City Center won this award in the year of its realisation. The site in the later years was further developed. TriGranit constructed the 1000-apartment complex, the Oak Terraces.
  • 2003

    Growing demands for TriGranit’s Class “A” offices in Slovakia
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    Because of the growing demand for TriGranit’s Class A offices in Slovakia, Millennium Tower 2 in Bratislava was built just 2 years after delivering Millennium Tower 1. The company put great emphasis on the uniqueness of the buildings and on flexible interiors which are capable of meeting the ever-changing demands of its clients. Perhaps this is also one of the keys to its growing success.
  • 2002

    The new National Theatre of Hungary was delivered
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    The National Theatre was built, delivered for the Hungarian State.
  • 2000

    The company started to expand accross borders in the CEE region
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    The company started to expand accross borders in the CEE region, Polus Center Bratislava retail and entertainment center was opened in Slovakia.
  • 1999

    The first city center project combining different functions in the new downtown of Budapest – the WestEnd City Center
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    The next great step was the creation of WestEnd City Center. With this, TriGranit created a new city centre in Budapest. The company’s pioneer development in the region that has retail, offices, leisure and entertainment parts. The WestEnd is today still number one shopping and entertainment center on the Hungarian market. The building had received many prestigious construction awards in the year of its opening and in the years to follow. When developing real estate, one of the company’s most important principles was to reduce the energy consumption of its buildings in both the development and management phases. This also shows that TriGranit's modern mentality appears not only in clear architectural forms, but also in its technical innovations.
  • 1997

    Birth of TriGranit with a merge of four companies
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    The company's ars poetica was formed: to develop mixed-use buildings that define a city's image and take a central position in both the city and the lives of its people. In this spirit, the company transformed, and with the merge of Gránit Polus, TrizecHahn, AIG and EBRD - TriGranit was born.
  • 1996

    The first American type of shopping centers, Polus Center Budapest is opened
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    The company saw greater development potential in building shopping centres and has built and delivered Polus Center Budapest, with this a new dimension of real estate development appeared in Hungary and in the CEE.
  • 1995

    Start of the TriGranit story – Bank Center is built by Gránit Pólus, predecessor of TriGranit
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    The story of TriGranit started with Gránit Pólus the development company of Sándor Demján, Hungary’s most successful businessman at the time. Their first project was Bank Center, built in the heart of Budapest. The office building was a success in all respects, caught the attention of global investors.

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