Sweden's SCA offers Tea Party-backers billions for tissue firm
Published: 10 Nov 11 14:02 CET | Print version
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Swedish paper firm SCA said Thursday that it had placed a 12.6 billion kronor ($1.9 billion) bid to purchase the European tissue wing of US pulp and paper company Georgia-Pacific, a firm owned by Tea Party movement financiers David and Charles Koch.
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"The deal is a strategic fit and will strengthen our product offering and geographic reach in Europe," SCA president and chief executive Jan Johansson said, adding "it also leads to substantial synergies."
Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's biggest makers of tissue, pulp and paper, last year saw its European tissue business pull in sales of €1.25 billion euros.
"The annual synergies are estimated at €125 million, with full effect in three years after closing," SCA said, adding that related costs were expected to tick in at 130 million euros.
"Already in year one, the transaction is estimated to contribute to an increase of earnings per share and cash flow. With fully realised synergies, earnings per share are expected to increase with approximately 1.70 kronor," it said.
SCA said it had the needed credit facilities to complete the deal to buy the Georgia-Pacific unit, which among other things makes the widely-known Lotus brand of tissue paper and counts some 5,000 employees and 15 production sites in seven countries.
The Swedish company did not say when it expected the deal to close, pointing out that Georgia-Pacific's acceptance of the offer would depend on the outcome of discussions with employee representatives.
If approved by the American company, the deal would also still need a green light from competition authorities, SCA said.
Following the news, SCA saw its share price rise 1.2 percent in early morning trading on a Stockholm stock exchange down 1.14 percent.
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Who is the "journalist" responsible for the article. There is no byline.
Cowardice? Amateurism?
Whatever. TL loses credibility.
Seems the liberals are afraid of the Tea Party. Guess theyr'e a threat to socialism . By the way ,hows socialism doing in Europe. You know , Portugal, Italy,Spain, Greece and so on. I mean all they had to do was ask any Russian about Marx and socialism.They could tell you how good it was
Not to be unheathily worried because all is being done by the creations and the creations have the defending power too. Bringing all the too rich guys in oil or energy business under "New tax rules (to be passed soon)" can easily solve these kind of small issues.
We the human, with a good man in the Western leadership, are now capable of removing even a menmaid city in a better location. We have millions of employable welfare recipients, skilled labours sitting idle.
If not today, tomorrow we won't have no choice but to get used to inevitable changes of new era as follows:
Whenever, current "Tax rules & Laws" and the professional Capitalist formulas of modern Economy are failed, that gives a signal to get back again to basic accounting of Socialism for redistribution of wealth for a limited time.
Money is a token, fruitful-positively usable to exchange mainly labours and not to sit as numbers in the banking system as fortunes of businessmen. Men-made new rules such as '$ One million maximun per person income is allowed' and rest will go to the global public funds such as UN's and private and public credits or debts will be wiped off, just like recent Gaddafi's etc. are capable of totally changing present bad financial situation in the West including our USA or tomorrow's North-America.
WE still can print it in volumes, pay off some of the debts, distribute as "must be spent vouchers and collect it back as revenues" and handle the situation by inviting foreign (until our available citizens join) labours @ minimum wages, -like Saudi-Arabia or Libya, to make and produce here everything we need everyday, because we are still blessed and we have free lands and all kind of minerals here too.
There is another preventive solution to be applied against worst kind of world situation of economy. It will be so easy that presently certified economists cannot even dream about.
I get a big kick watching the media push lefty buttons for circulation. The effect in operation was first demonstrated by Pavlov and his dog. "Koch Bros.," ... *drool* "Tea Party," ... *slobber* "Corporate jets," ... *growl* "Tax the rich," ... *wag tail* "The Wealth Gap," ... *bark* Etc.