{"id":6862,"date":"2012-01-09T20:30:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-2-sabmiller-interested-in-castels-african-business\/"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:30:40","slug":"update-2-sabmiller-interested-in-castels-african-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-sabmiller-interested-in-castels-african-business\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-SABMiller interested in Castel&#8217;s African business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* SABMiller keen on Castel&#8217;s African beer and soft drinks<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Clarifies mutual pre-emptive rights between the two groups<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Agrees to closer links in Nigeria and Angola<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* SABMiller shares up 0.3 pct at 2,339 pence<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Jones<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Global brewer SABMiller<br \/>\n said it would be interested in acquiring the African<br \/>\nbrewing operations of French group Castel as the two announced<br \/>\non Monday they were strengthening their links in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SABMiller and privately owned Castel reached a strategic<br \/>\nalliance in 2001 whereby SABMiller took a 20 percent stake in<br \/>\nthe Paris-based group&#8217;s beer and soft drinks operations in<br \/>\nAfrica, and Castel acquired a 38 percent stake in SABMiller&#8217;s<br \/>\nAfrica subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two agreed mutual pre-emptive rights over each others&#8217;<br \/>\nbeverage operations in Africa, whereby each has first rights to<br \/>\nbuy each others&#8217; operations if put up for sale, and SABMiller<br \/>\nsaid these rights had now been &#8220;clarified and amplified&#8221;.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* SABMiller keen on Castel&#8217;s African beer and soft drinks * Clarifies mutual pre-emptive rights between the two groups * Agrees to closer links in Nigeria and Angola * SABMiller shares up 0.3 pct at 2,339 pence By David Jones LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Global brewer SABMiller said it would be interested in acquiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}