Mining and metals major Vedanta confirms paring stake in subsidiary Hindustan Zinc on Wednesday, June 18, in a bid to deleverage and strengthen its balance sheet. Several media reports yesterday indicated that Vedanta...
Canada’s Dundee Precious to buy UK’s Adriatic Metals in $1.25 billion deal
Canada’s Dundee Precious Metals will acquire UK-based Adriatic Metals in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.25 billion, the companies said on Friday, marking the latest in a string of foreign takeovers of UK firms...
Maithan Alloys acquires minority stake in GAIL (India) for Rs 12 cr
Maithan Alloys said that it has acquired a 0.01% stake in GAIL (India) for total consideration of Rs 12.36 crore via stock exchange. The company has acquired 6,25,000 shares through stock exchange with view to reap the...
Hindalco to acquire coal block owner EMMRL for long-term fuel security
Hindalco Industries Ltd, the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, will acquire 100 per cent of EMIL Mines and Mineral Resources Ltd. (EMMRL), which holds the mining lease for the Bandha coal block in Madhya...
UK’s Adriatic Metals in takeover talks with Dundee Precious Metals
UK’s Adriatic Metals said on Tuesday it was in talks with Canadian peer Dundee Precious Metals regarding a possible takeover. Sky News, which first reported about the potential talks earlier in the day, said a...
Vedanta expects demerger to complete by Sept-end: CFO Ajay Goel
Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Ltd expects to complete the demerger of its businesses by the September-end, according to a top company official. The company had earlier said it has pushed back its demerger by a quarter to...
Vedanta looks to go for four-way business split
Metals maven Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta is considering trimming its proposed demerger into four units, from the originally planned six and later reduced to five, after a corporate tribunal blocked the spin-off of its...
Sandhar Tech rises after acquiring Sundaram-Clayton’s Aluminium die casting business
Sandhar Technologies advanced 2.82% to Rs 395.80 after the company said that its wholly-owned subsidiary Sandhar Ascast has acquired Sundaram-Clayton’s ‘high pressure and low pressure Aluminium die...
Mitsui to buy $5.3 billion stake in Rio Tinto iron ore project
Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co said on Wednesday it would acquire a 40% stake in the Rio Tinto-operated, Rhodes Ridge iron ore project in Western Australia for $5.34 billion, to strengthen its long-term earnings...
Rio Tinto and Glencore discussed merger but talks no longer active, source says
Glencore approached Rio Tinto, late last year about combining the two big copper producers but the discussions are no longer active, a person familiar with the matter said. The talks between Rio, the world’s No. 2...
February creditor meet key to Vedanta demerger plan
If the creditors of natural resources major Vedanta go ahead with their plan of giving consent for the company’s proposed demerger at a meeting next month, it will be a major step paving the way for the listing of the...
Vedanta creditors may meet in February to approve split of mining conglomerate
Vedanta Ltd. creditors will gather next month to give their final verdict on a plan to split the sprawling Indian mining conglomerate into at least five different businesses, a key step in a months-long effort to...
