HNA Group Makes $1 Billion Formal Offer for Singapore Logistics Firm
September 07 2017 - 9:43PM
Dow Jones News
By Gaurav Raghuvanshi
SINGAPORE--Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. (HNAG.YY) has made
a formal offer to buy all the shares of CWT Ltd. (C14.SG), valuing
the Singapore-listed logistics and warehousing firm at about US$1
billion.
HNA is offering 2.33 Singapore dollars a share for CWT, the same
price as its preliminary offer announced in May. The offer is at a
2.2% premium to its last traded price on Wednesday, CWT said in a
late-night announcement to the Singapore Exchange.
HNA's offer for CWT is the latest in a series of purchases by
the conglomerate, one of China's most-aggressive buyers, as it
looks to expand its travel-to-property empire beyond the country's
borders. HNA has spent billions of dollars in recent years to buy
several financial, infrastructure and property assets. Its
purchases include stakes in Deutsche Bank AG (DB) and Hilton
Worldwide Holdings Inc. (HLT).
CWT, founded in 1970 as a private arm of the Port of Singapore
Authority, provides commodity logistics, freight logistics and
warehousing services. It also has a division that specializes in
the trading of nonferrous ores and precious metals, as well as an
engineering and financial-services division. As of the end of last
year, CWT Group managed about 10.3 million square feet of owned and
leased warehousing space in Singapore.
HNA expects the acquisition of CWT to benefit the Singapore
company from China's "Belt and Road Initiative," an ambitious
infrastructure-investment plan spanning much of the globe.
Write to Gaurav Raghuvanshi at gaurav.raghuvanshi@wsj.com
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September 07, 2017 21:28 ET (01:28 GMT)
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