The headqurters of Song Da Corporation. (Photo: Dan Tri)Hanoi (VNA) - The Prime Minister has given the green light to theequitisation plan for Song Da Corporation in the form of selling parts ofstate-owned capital and issuing shares to increase charter capital to 4.5trillion VND (198.3 million USD).
The plan allows the business to launch its initial public offering (IPO) of 450million shares for 10,000 VND each or 0.44 USD, with the State retaining 229.5million shares, making up of 51 percent of the charter capital, until the endof 2019.
State capital in the corporation will be reduced to below 50 percent of thetotal charter capital in 2020.
Meanwhile, 822,000 preferential shares or 0.183 percent of the charter capitalwill be sold to the company’s staff and 135 million shares equivalent to 30percent of the charter capital to strategic investors. Over 84.7 million shareswill be put up for public auction.
The Prime Minister authorised the Ministry of Construction to set upcriteria to choose strategic investors and asked Song Da Corporation to handleland issues, pay annual land lease frees and implement the management and useof land in line with relevant regulations.
The company’s total labourers at the time of announcing the corporation’s valuewas 464 people, 412 of whom will move to work at Song Da Corporation-Joint StockCompany and the remainder will leave the company.
Some 55 state-owned companies were equitised in 2016. The country targeted toequitise 137 state-owned enterprises in four ministries and branches, 32localities and four economic groups will be priotised during 2017-2020.-VNA
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