PNB offers RM493m for rest of Petaling Garden

PNB offers RM493m for rest of Petaling Garden


April 28 2007


STATE-owned fund manager Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) has made a RM493 million buyout bid for another company, its second in less than a week.

It has offered to buy the remaining shares of Petaling Garden Bhd, a property developer, for RM2.50 each. This is a 16 per cent premium over the shares' last closing price.

The stock closed at RM2.15 on April 25, a six-year high, before it was suspended from trading yesterday. It will resume its trading on Monday.

PNB now holds 48.82 per cent of Petaling Garden. It plans to take Petaling Garden's shares off the stock market.

Three days ago PNB made a RM670 million bid to buy the remaining shares in Island & Peninsular (I&P), which is also a property developer.

PNB did not give a reason for the Petaling Garden bid. However, the state-owned fund manager had made similar moves recently when it felt that its companies were undervalued.

In 2005, it made a bid to take Pelangi Bhd, a property firm, private.