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Goh Bak Heng boosts Best World stake

13 August 2004
The Business Times

GOH Bak Heng, who became a substantial shareholder of Best World International last week, continued to raise his stake this week. He bought 200,000 shares in the health and lifestyle products company on the open market at 22.5 cents on Wednesday, raising his stake to 7.7 million shares or 6.18 per cent. This was after buying 1.1 million shares at 22.5 cents on Tuesday. The 1.3 million shares bought so far this week have been pledged with Hong Leong Finance. Best World shares closed unchanged at 22.5 cents. Its IPO shares were issued at 30 cents apiece.