■ LS Cable is now divided into a holding company and a business company (LS Cable, LS Mtron) through board meeting held on 2nd.
■ As the first group company to physically split-up, the stock ratio of major shareholders remains unchanged
■ Chairman John Koo said “A new start as a holding company will be another opportunity to leap forward”
LS Group (Chairman: John Koo) held a board meeting at LS Tower located in Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 2nd of May and decided to divide LS Cable into a holding company and a business company. The holding company system is known as the most desirable ownership structure to produce synergy of co-management.
LS Cable will be divided into three companies; LS Cable, an existing company will be divided into LS Corp. (existing company, tentative name); LS Cable (new company, tentative name) with extra-high voltage power cables, telecommunications cables as major businesses; LS Mtron (new company, tentative name) with tractors, injection system, building air-conditioning system and automotives, and electronic components as major businesses. The physical split up system is applied where the holding company would have 100% share of the new company which is not listed.
The start of a holding company through the physical split-up of LS Cable is expected to separate investment and business without changing stock ratio owned by major shareholders at the moment. Through this, affiliate companies can focus only on management while specializing in business and reinforcing competitiveness through selection and concentration on core business, with the eventual stock value of the holding company expected to increase.
With the split-up of LS Cable, the holding company will have 100% share of subsidiary companies. They could promote group development and secure investment resources necessary to improve financial structure of subsidiary companies through stock selling in the future. This is the first case of a split up for a Korean group company.
With Won1.6 trillion of total assets, Won173 billion of liabilities, 1.5 trillion of equity, the holding company will be reborn as the healthiest enterprise with only 11% of debt ratio. Backed by a healthy financial structure, they are now prepared to aggressively develop new businesses.
After the resolution by the board of directors, John Koo, LS Group Chairman said “For LS Cable, as it prepares for a new future, the ompany’s change into a holding company after five years since the group separation, would be a new opportunity to leap forward again.” He also added that “In the future, as a holding company, LS Cable will focus its competence to aggressively develop new growth engines as a group and prepare the infrastructure to increase management accomplishments for subsidiary companies.”
With the new start as a holding company, LS Cable will be officially divided on July 1 after the final resolution of the shareholders’ meeting, which will be held on June 24. LS Corp., holding company will have LS Cable, LS Mtron, LS Industrial Systems and LS-Nikko Copper as subsidiary companies and about 20 companies including JS Cable, LSCW (LS Cable Wuxi) as companies both domestic and abroad.
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