Glenealy Plantations
(Malaya) Bhd (RM7.95/share)
Nod for Glenealy
buyout
Minority shareholders fighting for a higher buyout price in
the Glenealy Plantations (Malaya) Bhd privatisation lost their battle after the
voting results were revealed at the court-convened meeting yesterday. After a
prolonged four-hour meeting, Glenealy independent non-executive director Md
Yusof Hussin told the press that the privatisation of the company, via a scheme
of arrangement method, would be carried through.“All conditions (for the
privatisation) were met,” he said, in reference to the voting result that
favoured the Samling group that is seeking to take Glenealy private.In its announcement
to Bursa Malaysia, Glenealy stated that 85.31% of non-interested shareholders
who turned up had voted in favour of the privatisation scheme. Glenealy said
these votes made up 94.17% in value terms of the non-interested shareholders who
turned up to vote. A mere 4.23% (in value terms) voted against the resolution. –
Starbiz
Construction sector
MRT contract winners
to be known today
Recipients of several contracts worth RM2.5 billion to build
the 51km Sungai BulohKajang My Rapid Transit (SBK MRT) project will be known
today. Business Times understands that the contracts are for the supply of
train sets, track works, signaling, power supply and depot equipment. The
biggest award would be for the supply of 58 sets of four-car trains worth about
RM1.3 billion. The contract had three bidders -Changchun Railways Vehicles Co
Ltd, CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co Ltd and Siemens-SMH Rail Consortium. –
Business Times
Malayan Banking Bhd
(RM9.27/share)
Maybank a potential
buyer of 33pc stake in Bank of Ayudhya
Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) has emerged as one of the
potential buyers of Bank of Ayudhya pcl (BoA), Thailand’s fifth-largest
lender.General Electric Co (GE) is said to be mulling plans to sell its US$2.2
billion (RM6.8 billion) stake in BoA to cut losses suffered during the
financial crisis.Maybank declined to comment on whether it is keen to buy GE’s
33 per cent stake in BoA, although a financial newswire quoted the American
giant as saying that it may contact potential buyers including Maybank. A
Maybank spokesperson told Business Times yesterday that the bank “does not comment
on market speculation”. – Business Times
Source: AmeSecurities
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