SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea announced on Thursday that it would offer about 240 billion won ($224.72 million) in loan guarantees and low-interest loans to regions hit by corporate restructuring, including the area of the local unit of General Motors (GM.N) soon-to-be-shut factory. FILE PHOTO: The main gate to GM Korea’s Gunsan factory is seen…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea announced on Thursday that it would offer about 240 billion won ($224.72 million) in loan guarantees and low-interest loans to regions hit by corporate restructuring, including the area of the local unit of General Motors’ <GM.N> soon-to-be-shut factory. A total of 395 subcontractors, small business owners and workers of Gunsan…
MUMBAI The fierce competition in India’s telecommunications sector has claimed another victim: Aircel, the Indian unit of Malaysia-based Maxis Communications. Aircel said on Feb. 28 that it had filed for bankruptcy in the local courts. The move by the last surviving small telecom operator signals that the end may be near for industry consolidation. Aircel’s…
THE mining arm of entrepreneur Beny Steinmetzs business interests, BSG Resources (BSGR), has been put into voluntary administration in order to protect its assets ahead of potential legal action it faces, said Reuters citing Dag Cramer, a director of BSGR. BSGR is caught up in legal disputes in relation to the vast Simandou iron ore…
The company, known as SixCap, was placed into insolvent liquidation last month in the British Virgin Islands where it’s incorporated, according to a statement dated Feb. 26 from appointed liquidator Baker Tilly. Investors and creditors were told they’re collectively owed more than $143 million, according to a Wednesday report by Singaporean newspaper The Business Times.…
Univision Communications is preparing for a restructuring and a change at the top as the company confirmed CEO Randy Falco is preparing his exit, just four months after he signed a two-year contract extension. Word of Falcos plan to retire comes one day after Univision acknowledged that it has tabled plans for the IPO that…
BANKS owed more than $3.5 billion by Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal have rejected its latest proposal to change its debt repayment agreement. It is understood the Gladstone facility’s 19 lenders knocked back a proposal for a five-year extension to the September deadline to repay or restructure WICET’s $3.75 billion debt, sending the company back to…