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Tongaat Hulett shares surge over 17% as Artemis ups its stake

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Shares in debt-laden Tongaat Hulett surged 17.78% on Tuesday following an announcement that Artemis Investments, which is managed by shareholder activists, had elevated its shareholding within the JSE-listed sugar producer and property firm to 10%.

Artemis has backed a bunch of minority traders disgruntled with the timing and measurement of Tongaat’s now deserted R5 billion rights supply.

Read: Tongaat Hulett abandons deliberate R5bn rights supply

Tongaat closed at R4.77 a share, 76 cents increased than its earlier closing. The inventory can also be greater than 55% up prior to now week, following the group’s determination to can the controversial capital increase.

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Charles Liasides, a director of Artemis Investments, advised Moneyweb on Tuesday the group beforehand held about an 8.5% shareholding in Tongaat, however “with recent developments it made financial sense to increase it to over 10%”.

Liasides mentioned Artemis had elevated its shareholding in Tongaat to over 10% in concerning the previous two weeks.

He described Artemis Investments as a personal funding firm owned by a household belief that has joined forces with different shareholders to stop the efficient takeover of Tongaat.

Read:
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Liasides declined to touch upon the quantum of funding made in Tongaat shares, aside from to state: “The quantum is relatively small in the bigger scheme of things.”

He confirmed that the rationale for Artemis rising its shareholding in Tongaat to 10% was to get a voice and to allow it to have interaction Tongaat’s administration.

“We have had ongoing engagements with Tongaat Hulett throughout this period and obviously have been directly involved with the TRP [Takeover Regulation Panel] appeal process,” he mentioned.

The “recent developments” and TRP enchantment course of referred to by Liasides relate to Tongaat’s deliberate recapitalisation to scale back its huge debt being scuppered by a Takeover Special Committee (TSC) determination withdrawing the obligatory supply exemption beforehand granted by the TRP to the corporate.

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The TSC withdrew the exemption due to disclosures about sure third get together share acquisitions. It concluded that the third events and Magister Investments, the underwriter of the proposed rights supply as much as a most of R2 billion, are live performance events and consequently declared the shareholder waiver a nullity.

Mauritian-based Magister Investments is a privately-held group managed by Zimbabwe’s Rudland household.

Magister is led by Hamish Rudland, brother of controversial tobacco tycoon Simon Rudland, who’s a shareholder of Gold Leaf Tobacco.

Artemis opposition 

Artemis Investments was a part of the consortium that submitted the applying to evaluation the TRP obligatory supply waiver/exemption granted to Tongaat Hulett.

Asked what Artemis would love Tongaat to do to scale back its debt burden and place the corporate on a extra sustainable footing, Liasides mentioned they imagine critical consideration ought to be given to the supply on the desk for the Mozambique belongings “and of course pursue the Deloitte claim”.

This is a reference to reviews final month that US-based Lusitania Investment Capital had made a proposal of about $220 million (round R3.74 billion) for Tongaat’s sugar operations in Mozambique.

However, Tongaat was reportedly unable to enter into negotiations due to the rights supply course of.

Analyst and shareholder activist David Woollam mentioned final month that Tongaat had not denied the supply for its Mozambique operation and, from the worth talked about, Tongaat can be realising full worth for an operation that doesn’t make a lot revenue.

Tongaat on 24 June introduced the termination of its rights supply underwriting settlement with Magister and the institution of a restructuring committee.

Non-executive director Piers Marsden was appointed chief restructuring officer to accentuate deal with the turnaround of the corporate because of the delay in implementing the rights supply.

Tongaat mentioned the first accountability of Marsden and the restructuring committee shall be to additional deal with growing options to scale back and repay debt to sustainable ranges whereas enhancing the liquidity of the corporate.

Liasides’s reference to the Deloitte declare pertains to a declare towards auditors Deloitte reportedly value greater than R1 billion.

Tongaat reported in February that six former firm executives – Peter Staude, Murray Munro, Michael Deighton, Rory Wilkinson, Kamlasagrie Singh and Samantha Shukla – along with Deloitte audit accomplice on the Tongaat Hulett audit Gavin Kruger, had appeared within the Durban business crime court docket in relation to fraud fees and have been all granted bail.

The fees stemmed from alleged fraudulent exercise between March 2015 and September 2018 associated to the alleged backdating of land sale agreements, which had a big impression on the corporate’s monetary outcomes and led to a big loss in shareholder worth.

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