Alfa, a Mexican conglomerate engaged in car parts and petrochemicals, is looking at options to launch an initial public offering (IPO) for its processed foods division Sigma Alimentos. Sigma produces dairy and meat products under Fud and ...
Tags: Sigma Food Unit, Food
Grupo Lala, a Mexican dairy company, is set to raise $863m through an initial public offering (IPO) this month to strengthen its operations and prepay bank loans. The company is offering 444 million shares in an offering that is ...
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There have long been doubts about the quality of Chinese economic data, until finally the Chinese government has admitted it. China's National Bureau of Statistics has said that a county government in Yunnan province "faked" economic data ...
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Wison Engineering (SEHK: 2236) announced on September 25 Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) had issued a notice to require the former to repay principal of CNY 186 million and related loan interests to its subsidiary Wison Engineering ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
FuYao Glass Industry Group announces that it plans to issue Hong Kong-traded shares and file for listing in Hong Kong. With issuance expenses deducted, financing will be used to build auto glass and float glass production bases, marketing ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
Grupo Lala, a Mexican dairy company, has announced plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) to strengthen its distribution operations and prepay bank loans. The company also plans to use the proceeds to pursue acquisition of ...
Tags: Dairy Grupo, IPO
China is said to be weighing a plan to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds. Sources said recently that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) planned to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds, an effort to ease ...
Tags: local treasury bonds, economy
Qinghai Province-based Chinese steelmaker Xining Special Steel Co. has announced that it has suspended its plan for a non-public offering of its shares against the background of sluggish demand in the steel markets and negative conditions ...
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When machine-tool maker Kasuga Co. of Japan decided to open its first overseas workshop around one year ago, it chose Taiwan over China on the advice of Jackson Wong, a Hong Kong citizen operating for more than 10 years as machine trader ...
Tags: Machine Tool
Biotechnology company Amgen has reached a deal to buy all outstanding shares of California-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals for $125 per share in cash. The purchase price of the transaction that is expected to be closed by the beginning of ...
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President Xi Jinping's visit to a recycling company Monday drew renewed attention to environmentally friendly industries. Xi said recycling is a sunrise industry and that garbage is a misplaced resource, during his visit Monday to a ...
China's economy is stabilizing, and if exports continue to see modest growth in the second half, then the pace of economic growth for the year is likely to be close to 7.5 percent, said a well known economist. Fan Gang, head of the ...
Tags: 2013 Growth
Air Liquide Group, the world's largest industrial gas producer by revenue, has launched the second phase of its investment program, called Tengfei II, in China this year. The program caters to the country's growing demand for oxygen, ...
Tags: Clean Energy Boom
A forthcoming audit of overall government debt in China is expected to reveal the status quo of growing government debt and its potential risks amid the country's economic slowdown. The planned nationwide audit follows a previous one ...
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The state-owned Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation hasdecided this week to provide guarantees of up to 75% of bank loans to new LNGprojects that are deemed to help reduce Japan's import costs for the fuel, aJogmec official said ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy