Thai tourism group Minor offers to buy out Spanish arm's minority shareholders

(Reuters) - Thai tourism group Minor International has offered to buy out minority shareholders of Spain's Minor Hotels Europe & Americas, the Spanish company said late on Friday.

The Thai group, which already owns 95.9% of MHEA shares, offered to pay 6.37 euros ($6.70) per share for the stake it does not own, with an aim to delist Minor Hotels, which was previously known as NH Hotels, the company said in a filing to the Spanish stock market regulator.

The price represents a 38% premium over MHEA's closing price on Friday. Minor Hotels' market value was 2.02 billion euros on Friday.

Minor took over the Spanish group in 2018, paying 6.30 euros per share.

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(Reporting by Joanna Jonczyk-Gwizdala, editing by Inti Landauro and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)