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/ 8 December 2004
Platinum-miner Ridge Mining is investigating the possibility of listing on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE), following the relaxing of exchange controls, and could list on the bourse in the first half of 2005, Ridge Mining commercial director Francis Johnstone said from London on Wednesday.
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/ 7 December 2004
The decision by the shareholders of Gold Fields to reject the Iamgold deal is welcome news to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the union said in a statement on Tuesday. "Such news couldn’t have come at a better time than this period of the year when, all around us, the message of goodwill is commonplace," the NUM said.
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/ 7 December 2004
Shareholders of world number four gold-miner Gold Fields on Tuesday voted down the merger of the group’s international assets with those of Canada’s Iamgold. This could pave the way for Harmony’s bid to merge with Gold Fields to form the world’s largest gold-miner to continue.
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/ 7 December 2004
The crucial Gold Fields shareholder vote on whether to merge Gold Fields’ international mining assets and those of Canada’s Iamgold is set to take place on Tuesday, with the result hanging in the balance. Gold Fields holds an extraordinary general meeting on the Iamgold transaction from 9am on Tuesday.
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/ 19 November 2004
South African food and pharmaceutical group Tiger Brands on Thursday reported a 19% increase in its final headline earnings per share to 927,3 cents for the year to September 30, from 778,2 cents in the previous comparative period. Tiger Brands announced a final dividend per share of 270 cents.
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/ 12 November 2004
Shareholders of world number-six gold miner Harmony have given the thumbs-up for the company’s proposed merger with a rival — the world’s fourth-biggest gold miner, Gold Fields. Harmony also received the 75% required to increase its authorised share capital by 750-million shares to 1,2-billion shares.
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/ 11 November 2004
The Johannesburg High Court on Thursday dismissed Gold Fields’ application to block Harmony Gold’s bid for the group, with the court dismissing Gold Fields’ argument that Harmony’s offer to Gold Fields’ shareholders was in contravention of South Africa’s Companies Act.
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/ 10 November 2004
The bid by world number-six gold miner Harmony for world number-four gold miner Gold Fields remains too close to call, with both groups of shareholders likely to make their final decision to vote for or against the merger on the day of the shareholder vote, investment market players said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 November 2004
World number-six gold miner Harmony Gold on Tuesday said it believes that rival Gold Fields’ directors have mismanaged their South African assets and their performance has been sub-standard to Harmony’s operations for several years.
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/ 8 November 2004
The CEO of world number-four gold miner Gold Fields, Ian Cockerill, on Monday called on shareholders of world number-six gold miner Harmony to vote against the resolutions proposed by the Harmony board. The general meeting of Harmony shareholders will be held at Harmony’s corporate office on November 12.
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