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UK's Frasers returns to make an offer for Norwegian retailer XXL ASA
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 18, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 18, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Frasers Group plans a mandatory offer for XXL ASA after surpassing the ownership threshold, now holding 32.9% of shares.
(Reuters) -Frasers plans to make a mandatory offer for Norwegian sporting goods retailer XXL ASA, the British retailer said on Tuesday, just weeks after dropping its bid to buy equity it did not already own in the company.
Frasers Group has been allocated 21.6 million A-shares in XXL ASA's fully underwritten rights issue, and an additional 777,289 A-shares as compensation for the group's guarantee in the issue, XXL said.
The new allocation brings Frasers' total stake to about 32.9% of all shares and 40.8% of the voting A-shares.
With this, Frasers Group will surpass the 1/3 ownership threshold under Norwegian securities law, triggering a mandatory bid for the remaining shares.
Frasers, which previously held a 25.8% stake in XXL, launched a bid in December but dropped it two months later, saying several of XXL's other large shareholders would not accept the offer.
(Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil and Chandini Monnappa in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Janane Venkatraman)
The article discusses Frasers Group's mandatory offer for Norwegian retailer XXL ASA after surpassing the ownership threshold.
Frasers surpassed the 1/3 ownership threshold under Norwegian securities law, triggering a mandatory offer.
Frasers Group now holds about 32.9% of all shares and 40.8% of the voting A-shares in XXL ASA.
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