Showing posts with label Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corp. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2007

Steelmaker Evraz Offers $11.40 a Share for Rest of South Africa's Highveld

(Bloomberg) -- Evraz Group SA, a Russian steelmaker
partly owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, offered about $519
million to buy the shares of Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corp.
Ltd. it doesn't already own.

Evraz will pay $11.40 a share, it said today in a statement
distributed by the Regulatory News Service. Evraz currently
holds about 54 percent of Witbank, South Africa-based Highveld.
The offer for the rest of the stock is mandatory under South
African law, Evraz said. The offer is valid until 5 p.m. South
African time today.


Read more at Bloomberg Emerging Markets News