MELBOURNE/TOKYO: US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) will buy two businesses from Brambles Industries Ltd for A$1.83bil in cash, the country's biggest buyout ever.
Brambles' shares rose in a weak Australian stock market on news of the higher than expected sale price, which fuelled hopes that the world's top pallet supplier will soon return more capital to shareholders.
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