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A.P. Møller-Mærsk will sell the participation in Dansk Supermarked for four billions of dollars
This year will be yielded 49% of the capital stock and in 2019 19%
January 7, 2014
shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has announced today the sale of its shareholding in Dansk Supermarked, the main chain of supermarkets of the Denmark that in 2012 has recorded revenues in order almost 56 billion Danish crowns (7,5 billion euros) and in the first nine months of 2013 for the 42 billion one Danish crowns having totaled a profit clearly of 1,1 billion Danish crowns (+45% on the first nine months of 2012). Dansk Supermarked, of which the shipowning group it stops 68% of the capital stock, has 32 thousand employee in Denmark and other 10 thousand in Sweden, Germany and Poland.
A.P. Møller-Mærsk has communicated to have reached an agreement with the Danish group Salling, that it stops the share quota remaining of Dansk Supermarked and that is partner of the shipowning group from 1964, based on which this Salling year will acquire 48.68% of the capital stock of Dansk Supermarked in hand to A.P. Møller-Mærsk and in 2019 will exercise a call option in order to acquire being remained 19% approximately of the capital stock still stopped from the shipowning group. The first cession, that it will be realized in the first semester of 2014, will yield to A.P. Møller-Mærsk clean revenues for approximately 17 billion Danish crowns (approximately three billions of dollars) and the second cession will have a value of approximately five billions of Danish crowns (approximately a billion of dollars).
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shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has announced today the sale of its shareholding in Dansk Supermarked, the main chain of supermarkets of the Denmark that in 2012 has recorded revenues in order almost 56 billion Danish crowns (7,5 billion euros) and in the first nine months of 2013 for the 42 billion one Danish crowns having totaled a profit clearly of 1,1 billion Danish crowns (+45% on the first nine months of 2012). Dansk Supermarked, of which the shipowning group it stops 68% of the capital stock, has 32 thousand employee in Denmark and other 10 thousand in Sweden, Germany and Poland.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
