The Brazilian investment company BWGI holds 77.05% of the capital of the manufacturer of Vervisilia Verallia, ex-Filiales of Saint-Gobain, after its OPA, said the Autorité des Marchés (AMF) on Thursday.
( AFP / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT )
“This step marks the final success of the BWGI offer,” said the latter in a separate press release.
Last April, the Brazilian family Moreira Salles launched a public purchasing offer (OPA) in Verallia, of which it already held 28.8% of the capital.
At the end of July, the AMF announced that BWGI controlled 70.31% of the capital and 62.81% of voting rights. At the end of the reopening of the offer from July 31 to August 13, the AMF indicates Thursday that the Brazilian company BWGI and its BWSA control shareholder hold “in concert” just over 93 million Verallia shares representing just over 98.3 million voting rights, “77.05% of the capital and 69.15% of the voting rights”.
BWGI underlines that “as a control unit of Verallia, he will accompany the creation of the group’s value in the long term in accordance with the commitments and intentions expressed in the information note relating to the offer”.
During the announcement of its offer in the spring, the Brazilian company had expressed its intention not to “make changes which concern employment”.
She also committed to the fact that “the decision -making center” and “the registered office of Verallia”, now located in La Défense, in the Parisian suburbs, “remain in France”. BWGI also assured that they did not intend to “withdraw Verallia from the coast”.
With 11,000 employees and 35 glass factories in 12 countries, Verallia claims the place of European leader and the world’s third producer of glass packaging for drinks and food products.