Huge deal: An AIS shop in Bangkok. Gulf Energy will tender for 100% of AIS, Thailand’s biggest mobile phone company controlled by Intouch. — Reuters
BANGKOK: Gulf Energy Development Pcl, Thailand’s biggest power producer by market value, offered to acquire Intouch Holdings Pcl that control’s the nation’s largest mobile phone operator for as much as 169 billion baht (US$5.4bil or RM22bil).
The Bangkok-based company, controlled by billionaire Sarath Ratanavadi, offered to buy 2.6 billion shares, or about 81% of Intouch, that it doesn’t currently own at 65 baht each, it said in an exchange filing. The offer price is 11% higher than Intouch’s close on Friday.
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