September 6, 2011
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Sime Darby- Eastern &Oriental (E&O) Deal
Is Simes E&O buy vital as well as fair?
By P. Gunasegaram (September 3, 2011)
TWO questions need to be answered to assess Sime Darbys squeeze of the 30% seductiveness in skill developer Eastern & Oriental (E&O). Is the squeeze unequivocally strategic? Is the cost fair? For both questions, the answers might good be no.
Lets look during the initial question. Its profitable RM766mil in income for the fully widely separated 30% interest (after conversion of irremediable automobile cumulative loan bonds or ICSLS). That makes it the single largest shareholder in the company though the existent management continues to be in place.
Introduced in to the understanding is the partnership agreement between the dual companies for pity of believe as well as expertise, leveraging upon each others core competencies as well as exploitation of mutually identified mercantile opportunities for 3 years.
Heres what Sime Darbys boss as well as CEO Datuk Mohd Bakke Salleh had to contend about the
deal: The due merger will yield the springboard for us to enhance the skill commercial operation as well as the sort of products we can offer. E&O is the distinctive code in the industry as well as is synonymous with quality. We strongly hold which by partnership as well as cranky fertilisation of ideas as well as expertise, there have been poignant opportunities for synergies f! or both parties, to illustrate creating value for the stakeholders.
Perhaps. But is the chosen a! pproach the many suitable way to understanding with this? Sime Darby has the single of the largest land banks in the country. There is no lack of land to develop. Plus it has substantial skill growth imagination travelling 40 years carrying grown townships, bungalows, houses, condominiums, as well as blurb projects.
Is appropriation the 30% interest in what is during many suitable the niche developer of high-end properties the way to take expertise? Or would it be improved for Sime Darby to take the necessary imagination by building the own capabilities in-house as well as employing selectively suitable people as well as consultants to fill in the gaps in the own management?
It would appear underneath the circumstances which Sime Darby has some-more believe as well as imagination than E&O as well as even if it lacked the little of these in the little areas it would have been perfectly capable to sinecure the necessary imagination instead of an costly merger which gives it no control of the company even.
Sime Darby would have done something some-more vital if it put in place as well as executed the plan to rise the own in-house capabilities so which it can improved exploit the own substantial land reserves of thousands of hectares efficiently as well as though carrying to make costly minority investments to get expertise.
Recall which early final year Sime Darby went in to an next to corner try to rise the RM1bil blurb project in the established Bukit Jelutong housing area in Shah Alam, Selangor with an additional skill developer, Sunrise.
Again because did Sime Darby, the developer with the prolonged as well as sundry lane record, need Sunrise, an established condomi! nium dev eloper with singular believe in blurb development, to put up the blurb centre? Has not Sime Darby some-more imagination than Sunrise in this area?
Sime Darby as well as Sunrise will have next to stakes in the corner venture! to deve lop off 20.95 acres in the 180-acre Bukit Jelutong township. The land comes from Sime Dabys outrageous land bank, substantially the largest in the country.
The cost of the 3 pieces of freehold blurb land land was RM114mil, or RM125 the sq ft. That is the rsther than good cost for the buyer considering which the gross growth area is 2.7 million sq ft as well as it is the RM1bil project.
In fact, the single might be tough put to buy residential land in Bukit Jelutong during which cost now!Sime Darby unequivocally needs to get the strategy right here as well as now.
Next, is the cost fair? The merger was made during RM2.30 per E&O share as well as per ICSLS. Thats the reward of the outrageous 60% over E&Os closing cost of RM1.45 Thursday prior to it was suspended upon Friday tentative the announcement.
In actuality E&Os cost was climbing usually from around RM1.20 end-March for the 21% gain notwithstanding the broad skill index dropping scarcely 140 points to about 960 or the decline of 13%.
Sime Darby pronounced which the merger was during the 20% bonus to E&Os estimated realisable net item value of RM3.2bil. However it is not clear how this was estimated as well as over what duration of time these assets would be realised.
Basically it equates to which the 3 sellers of the E&O interest benefited enormously by removing the 60% reward over the marketplace cost for their stake. Their gains over the marketplace cost alone would have amounted to the large RM283mil.
Perhaps Sime Darby, even if it suspicion which this was the many suitable track for the skill zone strategically, could have made the partial suggest directly to all E&O shareholders for the 30% interest during the some-more palatable reward to mar! ketplace as well as then supposed all offers proportionately.
That would have meant which all minority shareholders of E&O would have had an event to extract in Sime Darbys really inexhaustible suggest instead of only the name three. The name 3 have been Datuk Tham Ka Hon additionally known as Terry Tham managing executive of E&O; Tan Sri Wan Azmi Wan Hamzah of Land as well as General fame! ; as well as GK Goh Holdings Ltd of Singapore which sold their stockbroking operations to CIMB group the little years back.
Yes, Sime Darby is big as well as approbation it has the lot of income as well as approbation it generates the lot of income too. Which is because the vital moves contingency co-ordinate with the overall size. Making the corner try here as well as an merger there is not going to do many for the skill division though will instead spread the resources thin.
Revamping it to simulate the size, scale as well as complexity of the skill operations as well as to capacitate it to take the genius to undertake all demeanour of skill ventures with the help of suitable consultants such as architects, designers as well as planners as well as keeping all the enlarge for itself will help it many more. Thats what alternative skill companies do.
Managing editor P Gunasegaram thinks which many bad corporate decisions have been made in the name of this cloudy thing called strategy.
Sime Darby Defends the Deal with E&O
By Risen Jayaseelan as well as John Loh
starbiz@thestar.com.my
Sime Darby Berhad has defended the clearly tall cost it is profitable for the proposed
merger of the 30% interest in Eastern & Oriental Bhd (E&O)on the drift which it! had act ed quickly upon an event which presented itself as well as the single which has good long-term prospects.
To recap, Sime Darby is profitable the whopping 60% reward to marketplace for the 30% retard in E&O from the latters major shareholders which embody managing executive Datuk Tham Ka Hon,Singapore-listed GK Goh Holding Ltd as well as the group led by Tan Sri Wan Azmi Wan Hamzah.
The E&O retard has been upon the marketplace for the while as well as several parties were still looking during the deal. Sime Darby acted upon an opportunit! y as well as di d so fast, Sime Darby pronounced in an email response to StarBizWeek.
Sime Darby additionally pronounced the E&O merger did not only bring with it land bank upon Penang island where land is scarce, though additionally the turn of singular talent, branding, as well as believe as well as imagination in the niche reward development.
When asked because Sime Darby did not consider only you do the corner try with E&O rsther than than buying the 30% stake, to achieve the same results, the reply was: We judged this to be the many propitious equates to of securing the many vital value for Sime Darby. Acquiring 30% creates the some-more permanent relationship.
Sime Darby additionally pronounced which E&Os Tham has settled which he will stay (at E&O) for during slightest an additional 3 years. Meanwhile, not all analysts have been assured of the merits of the deal, highlighting in sold which the cost being paid is tall as well as which the firm could have invested the income elsewhere.
We consider the understanding is expensive, Kenanga Research pronounced in the report. The research residence explained which the cost tab of RM2.30 per E&O share was 5% upon top of Kenangas sum-of-parts realised net item value per E&O share of RM2.19 as well as 59% upon top of the pre-suspension cost of RM1.45.
Kenanga additionally pronounced it was slightly disastrous upon the merger as the RM766mil ! Sime Dar by was profitable for the 30% interest could have been improved utilised to enhance the camp land or automotive commercial operation in China.
The research residence combined which the tiny stroke upon Sime Darbys gain (of next 1% of the estimated monetary years 2012 as well as 2013 profits) might not be value the managements time as well as bid as compared with Sime Darbys alternative businesses of plantations, industrial as well as motor.
Since Sime Darby was approaching to equity account E&Os gain during an associate level, which would only translate to the 0.6% enlarge in Sime Darbys enlarge in 2012 as well as 2013, it said.
Meanwhile, Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd pronounced which although the ultimate pierce by Sime Darby would help it precedence upon E&Os strength in Johor as well as Penang, it was during many suitable neutral upon the merger since the tall cost tag.
Hong Leong additionally settled which Sime Darbys ultimate merger would lift the latters net gearing turn to 0.12 times from 0.09 times as during Jun 30, 2011.
OSK Research forked out which while E&O would complement Sime Darbys skill business, the latter itself would have been able to rise the own niche skill growth division, being the single of the greatest skill developers in the country.
It (Sime Darby) additionally has the fairly strong branding as well as successful high-end products. Hence, it should not be difficult for Sime Darby to set up the strength in the niche skill segment, OSK said, adding which in perspective of Sime Darbys own strengths, it was doubtful the E&O merger would significantly boost the brand, distinct what Sunrise did for UEM Land.
Moreover, OSK noted, even if Sime Darby bought the 100% interest! in E&am p;O, the enlarge in the
groups bottom line would be marginal since the size.
To recap, Sime Darby had in the Sunday filing with Bursa Malaysiaannounced it would be appropriation 30% of E&O, represented by 273 million shares as well as 60 million irremediable automobile cumulative loan stocks, for RM766mil or RM2.30 the share.
Sime Darby pronounced per the own valuation the RM2.30 per E&O share was the 20% bonus to E&Os estimated realisable net item value of RM3.2bil or RM2.88 per share.
Alongside the share sale, the three-year partnership agreement was hermetic between t! he dual c ompanies to concur upon 3 areas: pity believe as well as expertise, leveraging upon each others core competencies, as well as mutually exploiting mercantile opportunities.
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