Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Money Rain on offer for Axis goes through – Expressen

Money Rain on offer for Axis goes through – Expressen

The three major shareholders of listed rocket Axis can go home with feta wallets – on offer from Canon goes through.

Enterprise profile, Christer Brandberg, can with its 10 million shares to be over three billion richer.

He says the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet that the money should be invested in the new company.

The Japanese camera giant Canon stingy not set when the morning became clear that one chooses to make a bid for IT networking company Axis.

Canon walloped by 24 billion – which caused shares to rush up to 50 percent when the stock market opened.

According to SvD Business has giant had my eye on Axis for a long time which was reflected in the generous cash offer of SEK 340 per share.

– Canon intends to provide the resources needed to Axis will be able to strengthen its position in this rapidly evolving market, says Canon Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai said in a statement.

Is the bid through, many people will see their wallets get really much fatter. But for that it is necessary to agree to the Canon becomes the owner of more than 90 percent of the shares.

And the three largest shareholders in the company, the union has to accept the bid, reports Di – financier Christer Brandberg, shareholders since 1989, can scoop about 3.4 billion on the deal.

SvD have talked to 72-year-old who has about 10 million shares in IT network company.

He argues that the money will be used to invest in new companies:

– I think it’s a perfect structure solution and it gives Axis very good values ​​to continue its expansion, he comments on the bid, but otherwise secretive about how wealth to be placed.

Second on the list of big winners are Therese Karlsson, widow of the founder Mikael Karlsson. Can Canon plans in the lock, she goes home with a similar amount Brandberg.

Martin Gren, the third largest shareholder, has 7.8 million shares in the company – and is also the founder of Axis, reports Di.

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