Reuters
Nov 28, 2016
GPA says sale of Via Varejo stake is only option on table
Reuters
Nov 28, 2016
Brazilian retailer GPA SA insisted on Monday that a sale of its controlling stake in Via Varejo SA is its only strategic option, disputing comments by a Via Varejo executive who said other alternatives are available.
Earlier on Monday, Via Varejo's head of investor relations, Alexandre Gonçalves, told investors at a briefing that GPA viewed the stake sale as its best option, but that GPA had alternatives if the deal fell through. He declined to elaborate.
GPA said in a statement to Reuters that management was authorized to sell its Via Varejo stake in order to focus on its food business, as stated in a Nov. 23 securities filing.
"Other options were ruled out," GPA said on Monday.
Last week, a Brazilian newspaper reported Chile's SACI Falabella SA, South Africa's Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd and Brazil's Lojas Americanas SA are among the retailers interested in Via Varejo.
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