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Finance / China
Earlier in the month, CFW predicted that consolidation in the steel industry would likely ramp up in 2009 as cash-rich majors picked up assets at depressed valuations and larger players merged to increase economies of scale amid falling demand. This has played out even sooner than we anticipated, and on December 29 it was confirmed that three of China's leading steel mills have...
2008-12-31Finance / Japan
Falling first half sales have further fuelled the merger talk that continues to surround Japanese dairy company Morinaga Milk Industry and compatriot confectioner Morinaga & Co....
2008-12-30Finance / Australia
UK confectioner Cadbury has completed the divestiture of its non-core beverage business with the GBP550mn (US$807.6mn) sale of its Australian soft drinks arm to Japanese brewing giant...
2008-12-29Finance
There are those energy companies that will struggle through the current crisis, those that won't make it and those that will benefit - Hunting is the latter. Hunting announced on December 12 that it has completed the sale of its Canadian oil and gas division, Gibson Energy. The London-listed international energy services company has secured CAD1.1bn in cash, minus CAD100mn in...
2008-12-17Finance / Austria
Deutsche Lufthansa announced on December 5 that it has agreed a deal which will make it Europe's largest airline. Lufthansa is taking advantage of Europe's floundering airline industry...
2008-12-10Finance / United Kingdom
The announcement by London-listed insurer Old Mutual that it has terminated the sale process of its South African subsidiary Mutual & Federal (M&F) underlines how UK market...
2008-12-03Finance / Peru
According to a note to the Lima stock exchange Peru's two largest telecoms operators are to merge, in a move that will create far and away the largest operator in an increasingly dynamic market. Fixed-line incumbent Telefónica del Perú (TdP), 98.18% owned by Spain's Telefónica, will merge with Telefónica Móviles del Perú Holdings (TMPH), operating as Movistar, which owns...
2008-12-29Finance / Brazil
The merger of Oi and Brasil Telecom (BrT) is set to take place before the December 21 deadline, after the Brazilian regulator approved the former's acquisition of its smaller rival....
2008-12-19Finance / Mexico
Mexico's Fresnillo followed up the announcement a few weeks ago that it will formally offer to acquire Toronto- and New York-listed MAG Silver, with the announcement on December 15...
2008-12-17Finance / Saudi Arabia
Saudi telecoms group Etihad Atheeb Telecommuniations (Atheeb), one of the Kingdom's new fixed-line licensees, has confirmed that it is planning to raise up to US$80mn in an initial public offering (IPO) at the end of January. Atheeb is comprised of Bahrain Telecommunications (Batelco) and a number of private Saudi investors, and is planning to invest US$1bn in its fixed line operation...
2008-12-30Finance / United Arab Emirates
CFW's view on the importance of the infrastructure sector for private equity firms continues to play out, and on December 16 Australia's Macquarie Group and the Abu Dhabi Commercial...
2008-12-22Finance / Gabon
Toronto- and London-listed Addax Petroleum announced on December 15 that it has increased its stakehold in the Gryphon Marin licence area off the coast of Gabon. The acquisition of...
2008-12-17Finance / United States
US petrochemical giant Dow Chemical took a major blow on December 29, when Kuwait confirmed that it's state-controlled oil company Kuwait Petroleum was pulling out of the two companies...
2008-12-30Finance / United States
US retail giant Wal-Mart has announced a US$2.8bn all-cash offer for Distribución y Servicio (D&S), Chile's largest supermarket chain, in a move that would mark Wal-Mart's first...
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