Biggest soft drink firm Maspex to consider IPO to finance big-scale acquisition

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Date: 2010-07-02 10:23

The country's biggest soft drinks maker Maspex Wadowice could consider debuting on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) it it were to finance a big-scale acquisition - of a company with annual revenue of around PLN 1.0bn (EUR 240mn; compared to Mapex's PLN 2.4bn) in Poland or another country from Central and Eastern Europe, the firm's CEO Krzysztof Pawinski has told the "Parkiet" daily in an interview.


Maspex - which operates on soft drinks and pasta markets - targets companies with at least PLN 100mn of annual revenue, he added. 

In 20 years of its existence, the company has taken over 14 companies, including 8 foreign firms.

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