SINGAPORE - BreadTalk Group founder George Quek, his wife Katherine Lee and a substantial shareholder on Tuesday announced a voluntary conditional cash offer to acquire all issued ordinary shares in BreadTalk at $0.77 apiece, with the aim of delisting the food and beverage player.
The offer price of $0.77 per share represents a premium of about 19.4 per cent over the closing price of $0.645 on Feb 21, and a 30.1 per cent premium over the one-month volume weighted average price. If delisted from the Singapore Exchange , BreadTalk will also be able to save on expenses and costs relating to the maintenance of a listed status and channel these resources to its business operations.
Each of Dr Quek, Ms Lee, Square Investment and Primacy Investment has given an irrevocable undertaking to tender all the shares they hold in acceptance of the offer. They will also reinvest the consideration due to them to subscribe for new shares in the offeror. This translated to a loss per share of 1.44 cents for Q4, compared with an earnings per share of 1.58 cents in the year-ago period.For the full year, the group posted a net loss of $5.2 million, versus a net profit of $15.2 million a year ago.
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