Dec 17 (Reuters) - Canadian lumber products company Canfor Corp has rejected Great Pacific Capital Corp’s proposal to take it private.
The proposal was rejected by 55% of Canfor shareholders, it said late Monday.
In August, Great Pacific, which already owned about 51% of Canfor’s shares at that time, had offered C$16 per share, or about C$2 billion ($1.50 billion) overall to take the company private.
In response to the offer, Canfor had cautioned its shareholders that the offer was non-binding on Great Pacific and had reiterated that there was no certainty of the offer being pursued by Canfor.
$1 = 1.3301 Canadian dollars Reporting by Anurag Maan in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich
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