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Rio Tinto completes Alcan sale

AAP Rio Tinto Ltd says its divestments have reached the $US10 billion ($A11.13 billion) mark with the completion of the Alcan Packaging Food Americas sale. The $US1.2 ($A1.34) billion sale to Bemis Company has been completed, Rio said in a statement to the stock exchange on
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Revamped Prime has ambitions to regain control

February 26, 2010 But Prime, known as Babcock & Brown Infrastructure before November's recapitalisation plan, accepts its immediate future will depend on organic growth from its depleted business base. Prime shed half its ownership of the Dalrymple Bay coal export terminal in
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Monarch Gold recapitalisation "imminent"

AAP Stirling Resources Ltd says it expects to settle arrangements for the $15 million recapitalisation of collapsed gold miner Monarch Gold Mining Company Ltd later this week. Stirling managing director Michael Kiernan, who chaired Monarch until its demise in July 2008, hopes to revive
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Monarch Gold recapitalisation "imminent"

Stirling Resources Ltd says it expects to settle arrangements for the $15 million recapitalisation of collapsed gold miner Monarch Gold Mining Company Ltd later this week. Stirling managing director Michael Kiernan , who chaired Monarch until its demise in July 2008, hopes to
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From Apprentice to chairman

Under fire ... Mark Bouris. Photo: Louise Kennerley In the long line of billion-dollar corporate collapses and near-death experiences during the credit crunch, the tale of start-up technology company TZ Ltd hardly stood out. It's an all too familiar story: an ambitious company convinced

Mirvac upgrades earnings and takes off brakes after a tough year

The results were in line with market expectations, although analysts were surprised by Mirvac's move to upgrade full-year operating profit from $253 million to $268.8 million, which equalled a rise to 9.2c per stapled security from the 9c previously announced. The only clouds on the horizon are

Mirvac to build on its brighter first half

DIVERSIFIED property group Mirvac will reignite its development program in all divisions as it emerges from the past tough year with an earnings upgrade and optimism that residential markets are back on track. The results were in line with market expectations, although analysts were
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Griffin"s debt burden

ANZ is owed $158 million in relation to a ''secured guarantee liability of Griffin Coal'', according to documents lodged with the Federal Court by KordaMentha's Brian McMaster, who has been appointed administrator to six Griffin companies. This makes ANZ the biggest creditor besides US

Griffin administrator moves step closer to sale

ANZ and Commonwealth Bank are owed a combined $240 million by companies in the Griffin Group which collapsed last month after failing to pay a tax settlement and money owed to US bondholders. ANZ is owed $158 million in relation to a ''secured guarantee liability of Griffin Coal'',
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CSR Split Denied

The court blocked the split because the potential impact on asbestos disease sufferers is "inconsistent with public policy and commercial morality". Justice Margaret Stone said in her judgement in the Federal Court in Sydney the demerger would hamper CSR's ability to meet asbes
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Rio/AMC, Westfield - Yahoo!7 Finance News

Wednesday February 3, 2010, 8:51 am Rio Tinto said yesterday it had completed the sale of Alcan's packaging, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and food divisions to Amcor for $US1.9 billion ($A2.1 billion). The sale, announced last August, continues Rio's sale of assets, which no
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Amcor completes Alcan acquisition - Yahoo!7 Finance News

Tuesday February 2, 2010, 10:04 am Packager Amcor Ltd has rebranded itself, coinciding with its completion of the purchase of Alcan Packaging from Rio Tinto Ltd . Amcor says its new brand "represents the beginning of a new era for Amcor". The company said in statements on

Rio Tinto completes asset sale to Amcor

Global miner Rio Tinto has completed the sale of Alcan's packaging, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and food divisions to Amcor for $US1.9 billion ($2.1 billion). The sale, announced last August, continues Rio's fire sale of assets, which has reached $US5.6 billion since the start of last
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Amcor completes Alcan acquisition

AAP Packager Amcor Ltd has rebranded itself, coinciding with its completion of the purchase of Alcan Packaging from Rio Tinto Ltd. Amcor says its new brand "represents the beginning of a new era for Amcor". The company said in statements on Tuesday that the Alcan acquisition meant
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Transpac warns of hit to profits

THE troubled waste management company Transpacific Industries has warned its pre-tax earnings will fall by almost a quarter in the first half due to weak trading conditions. The company also indicated it was likely to write down the carrying value of its assets. The profit warning did
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Debt-laden Transpacific warns on profit

TROUBLED Queensland waste management company Transpacific Industries has warned that its pre-tax earnings will fall by almost a quarter in the first half. Transpacific also indicated that it is likely to write down the carrying value of its assets. The warning did not surprise investors
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Lane Cove Tunnel operator hits the wall

Lane Cove Tunnel ... proved a disaster for Connector Motorways. Reinforcing NSW's tattered reputation for public infrastructure projects, KordaMentha partners Martin Madden and David Merryweather have been appointed as receivers to Connector Motorways. About three years after it opened at
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Tunnel owner put in receivership

THE owner of Sydney's ill-fated Lane Cove Tunnel has been tipped into receivership two years after it was placed on life support, opening the way for pension funds and trade buyers to pick it up at a large discount to the $1.6 billion cost of the project. Reinforcing NSW's poor reputation
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Lane Cove Tunnel operator hits the wall

The owner and operator of Sydney’s Lane Cove Tunnel has been placed in receivership, after creditors finally refused to grant another extension over the repayment of $1.14 billion of debt. Reinforcing NSW’s tattered reputation for public infrastructure projects, KordaMentha part
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Stockland | GPT

As the listed property trusts prepare their accounts before the reporting season next month, talk is turning to Stockland's intentions for the country's oldest listed property trust, GPT. The expiry date on the strategic economic interest it holds in GPT looms, in May. Other pressing
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