Friday, March 2

New Hope scraps A$6bn Auction Plan

New Hope Corp, the Australian thermal coal company, has abandoned plans for a A$6bn ($6.4bn) sale after a five-month auction failed to draw a bid.

The company is one of the few remaining large coal groups in Australia after a flurry of deals in the past year, including the A$4.9bn takeover of Macarthur Coal by Peabody Energy and ArcelorMittal in August and Yanzhou Coal’s proposal to buy Gloucester Coal via a complex reverse takeover.

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New Hope was put on the block in October after being approached by potential suitors that included Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla and Vedanta Resources, the London-listed resources group controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal. China’s biggest coal producer Shenhua Group was also believed to have made an approach.


Financial Times

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