Looking Toward Strengthening our Existing Businesses and Creating of New, Highly Profitable Businesses Restructuring Hitachi High-Tech Fine Systems
TOKYO, Feb 2, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Hitachi High-Tech Corporation ("Hitachi High-Tech") today announced the restructuring of Hitachi High-Tech Fine Systems Corporation ("HFS") on April 1, 2022, as part of Hitachi High-Tech's key initiatives for our 2024 Mid-Term Management Plan. Hitachi High-Tech aims to create new businesses that will be a key part of our future, in tandem with the plans to further expand the growth and profitability of our existing businesses.Through corporate divestiture, HFS will transfer its railroad inspection, HD/FPD(1) and laboratory solutions businesses to Hitachi High-Tech Solutions Corporation ("HSL") and transfer its manufacturing functions to Hitachi High-Tech Manufacturing & Service Co., Ltd. ("HMS"). Furthermore, the prototyping, development, and other functions of HFS will be transferred to Hitachi High-Tech through an absorption-type merger, with HFS as absorbed company and Hitachi High-Tech as the surviving company.Business Restructuring GoalsThe environment surrounding society is changing every day with developments in digitization and the acceleration of innovations in technology. In order to respond swiftly to the changi...
Singapore retail investors to vote on fate of struggling shipping firm PIL
SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) - Creditors to distressed Singapore shipper Pacific International Lines will vote on Monday (Feb 1) on a restructuring deal that involves a capital injection from a unit of Temasek Holdings. It's an important day for investors who oppose the plan like Singapore businessman Kuah Ann Thia, an unsecured noteholder - the most vulnerable in the bond world. He and other individual investors hold parts of PIL's $60 million security that came due in November but which the shipper hasn't repaid. Mr Kuah had initially felt relief last year when he heard that the Temasek unit was providing a US$600 million (S$798 million) package comprising debt and equity to PIL. But he said he became worried when he saw the company's restructuring plan. Under the so-called scheme of arrangement, it could be at least five years before unsecured noteholders saw actual cash payments, according to presentation materials. In contrast, some secured lenders like banks could get payments for their claims subject to the company having sufficient excess cash. PIL said in May last year it received an in-principle approval from a majority of its financial lenders, constituting 97.6 per cent of the...
Malaysia Airlines restructuring talks prolonged, CEO tells staff
SINGAPORE (REUTERS) - Malaysia Airlines' parent company is still holding negotiations with lessors and creditors over a restructuring plan to keep the carrier alive, but the talks are taking longer than planned, according to a staff memo seen by Reuters. "The negotiations are still ongoing and taking longer than the planned timeline, but we are gaining encouraging traction from the lessors and creditors thus far," Izham Ismail, chief executive of Malaysia Airlines and group CEO of parent Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG), said in a memo to staff on Oct 16. In response to a Reuters query, MAG said in an email on Saturday Oct 17) it is "continuing discussions with creditors on its ongoing restructuring exercise". MAG, owned by state fund Khazanah, said Izham's memo to staff was to address concerns among employees. Malaysia's national airline is seeking to restructure after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to slash operations. The carrier had restructured after two deadly crashes in 2014 but unlike at that time the government is unwilling to bail it out this time. Reuters reported last week that a group of lessors had rejected a restructuring plan that involved steep discounts, bringing...
