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The Straits Times / The Business Times News on HG Metal
HG Metal stakeholders place out 6.8m shares
January 04, 2005
The
Business Times
ABOUT five existing shareholders of steel stockist HG Metal
Manufacturing have sold 6.8 million shares in a private placement at 64
cents apiece, said sources close to the deal. BT understands that the
shares were bought by five or six 'high net worth individuals' involved
in the oil and gas and marine industries, and that the trades were
crossed in the late afternoon yesterday. HG Metal, which intends to pay
dividends of 1.5 cents per share and a one-for-three bonus share issue
in the coming weeks for its FY2004 results, closed unchanged at 68.5
cents yesterday. In total, 16 million HG Metal shares changed hands
yesterday, making it the sixth most active stock on the Singapore
Exchange.
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