Shopping for M&A business in forwarding?
Desperately seeking new investors?
If we spend enough time on the quarterly numbers released by SATS, the suitor of WFS, last week, one question naturally springs to mind: who needs whom in the tie-up?
(Another: what’s all the fuss about its next funding round? Ok, you haven’t gone through the interims.)
France’s WFS is private and its financial achievements are disclosed in detail to its investors – we used to have access, it’s mission impossible now, it seems.
But SATS is public. And its stock at S$2.74* is ...
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