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Polish refiner Orlen aims to buy controlling stake in Lotos

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Paweł Kononczuk 27.02.2018 13:55
Poland's biggest oil refiner, PKN Orlen, said on Tuesday it has signed a letter of intent with the state treasury to buy at least 53 percent of shares in Lotos, the country’s no. 2 refining company.
Photo: Artur Czachowski from Poland [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsPhoto: Artur Czachowski from Poland [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Both firms are state-controlled. PKN Orlen and Grupa Lotos shares jumped on the news.

The transaction will need to be approved by competition authorities, the PAP news agency reported.

Orlen said in a statement: "The aim of the transaction is to create a strong, integrated concern capable of better competing internationally [and] resistant to market fluctuations, among other things through operational and cost synergies between PKN Orlen and Grupa Lotos."

The Parkiet daily last year cited a deputy infrastructure and construction minister as saying that a merger between Orlen and Lotos was unavoidable.

The paper quoted Kazimierz Smoliński as saying that there was no other country of a size similar to Poland that had two major state-owned companies in one industry.

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Source: PAP

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