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Heineken has made a bid to buy the remaining stake in Tiger beer maker1 Asia Pacific Breweries3 (APB) that it does not already own.
喜力啤酒欲购买虎牌啤酒生产商亚太酿酒公司的剩余股份。
Heineken is expanding in emerging markets with accquisition in Mexico, Brazil, India and Africa The offer of 5.1bn Singapore dollars is for the share owned by Singapore-listed company Fraser and Neave (F&N).
The bid comes after Thailand's biggest brewer2, ThaiBev, offered to buy shares in F&N and Asia Pacific Breweries.
Beer companies are jostling for control in the fast growing Asian market.
'Next chapter'
"We really value our partnership4 with F&N which goes back over 80 years, but due to changes in the F&N and APB shareholding5, the fabric6 of the partnership has changed," said Heineken chief executive Jean-Francoi van Boxmeer.
He added that the company was looking ahead to the "next chapter of our Asian business".
Heineken will offer a price of 50 Singapore dollars a share, the brewing7 giant said in a statement.
Analysts8 said the move is aimed at protecting Heineken's interests in the region, and the desire to continue with its expansion plans.
The current ownership structures of APB, one of the largest in the region, is convoluted9.
Heineken currently controls 42% of the brewery10, while F&N owns 40%. Heineken also owns a direct 9.5% stake in Asia Pacific Breweries.
Rival Kirin, from Japan, owns an almost 15% stake in F&N.
Mr van Boxmeer has previously11 said he was "uncomfortable" when Japan's Kirin made that move.
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