State capital divestment from brewers urged to be sped up
This has been proposed by the Ministry of Finance’s Agency of Corporate Finance. The two brewers are currently under the management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
The proposal was made at a press conference on equitisation and pestment of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) held by the finance ministry on September 27.
This is one of the solutions given by the agency in order to speed up equitisation and pestment of SOEs in the last three months, to ensure the revenue target of VND60 trillion (US$2.64 billion) is met by the end of this year.
The agency has asked MoIT to accelerate the pestment from Sabeco and Habeco and finish the transfer of State capital to the Support Fund for Enterprise Reorganisation and Development before December 1, 2017.
In case MoIT cannot announce the prospectus for pestments in the two companies by the end of this month, the ministry should seek the Prime Minister’s instruction on handing over the State capital ownership to SCIC.
The pestment of Sabeco and Habeco, the two biggest local brewers in Vietnam, has attracted significant attention in the market. MoIT holds 89.59% of Sabeco’s charter capital and is expected to sell 53.59%.
In Habeco, the ministry plans to offload its entire holding of 81.79%.
Sabeco is the leading beer producer in terms of market share, holding 40% of local beer consumption. Heineken came second, with a 25% market share, followed by Habeco, with 18%.
Carlsberg is a strategic shareholder in Habeco, with a holding of 17.51%. The Danish beer maker has shown interest to purchase 51% of Habeco’s stakes. After nine negotiations, the two sides have yet to reach an agreement on the selling price but Carlsberg still retains priority over the right to negotiate with Habeco when the State makes the pestment.
Meanwhile, many foreign investors are keen on Sabeco’s stakes, including Japan’s Asahi Group, Thailand’s Singha, Kirin, Heineken and Anheuser-Busch InBev.
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