KUALA LUMPUR: China’s biggest grains trader COFCO Corp is in talks to buy Noble Group Ltd’s agribusiness arm in a deal that would value the division at around US$1bil, people familiar with the matter said.
Acquiring the Noble unit would help China develop a powerful agricultural trading house, an entity the country has lacked.
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