Retail company Maxima Grupe UAB, operating under the same group as Akropolis Group UAB, is spinning off its operations in Poland and Bulgaria to related parties within the wider Metodika B.V. group. We believe the group?s diversification beyond the rated perimeter, including Akropolis, would likely reduce its strategic importance (and that of Maxima) to the Metodika group. Consequently, we revised our assessment of Akropolis' group status toward the Metodika group to highly strategic, while we previously considered it to be core to the Vilniaus Prekyba (VP) group. We affirmed our 'BB+' long-term issuer credit rating on Akropolis, while our assessment of its stand-alone credit profile (SACP) is unchanged at 'bb+'. At the same time, we affirmed our 'BB+' issue rating
