PetroVietnam is laying out plans to divest capital from the two biggest Vietnamese fertiliser companies – PetroVietnam Fertiliser & Chemicals Corp (DPM) and PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertiliser Joint Stock Company (DCM) – to submit to authorities for consideration.
To ensure efficient divestment, PetroVietnam is working on a number of plans, including consolidating the two companies. (Photo: vietnamfinance.vn)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - PetroVietnam is laying out plans to divest capitalfrom the two biggest Vietnamese fertiliser companies – PetroVietnam Fertiliser& Chemicals Corp (DPM) and PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertiliser Joint StockCompany (DCM) – to submit to authorities for consideration.
The plan did exclude the option of merging the two companies, the VietnamNational Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) said.
The divestment is part of PetroVietnam’s overhaul plan for 2017-25.
The Ministry of Finance had previously asked the group to adjust its holdingsin the two companies to 36 percent by 2020.
Under the ministry’s guidance, PetroVietnam had completed a divestment draft,cutting its ownership in the two firms to 36 percent during 2018-20. To ensureefficient divestment, PetroVietnam was looking at all options, includingconsolidating the two companies, it said.
Under a direction issued by the Prime Minister on August 11, 2017, PetroVietnamwill reduce its ownership in Ca Mau Fertiliser from 75.56 percent to 51 percentand in Fertiliser & Chemicals from 61.38 percent to 51 percent this year.
At the 2018 annual shareholders’ meetings of the two companies, PetroVietnamsaid it would complete the divestment schemes by year-end.
At Ca Mau Fertiliser, the group has set up a steering committee and signedcontracts with consultancy firms to construct a pricing and timetable for thedivestment.
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To ensure efficient divestment, PetroVietnam is working on a number of plans, including consolidating the two companies. (Photo: vietnamfinance.vn) 
