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OceanwideY­ili shares agreessurg­e onto buy Shengmu Gemworth Milk for purchase$2.7 billion

- ByWUYIYAOB­y ZHU WENQIANin Shanghaiin Beijing wuyiyao@chinadaily.com.cn zhuwenqian@chinadaily­usa. com

Chinese family-owned companyDai­ry giant China Inner Oceanwide Mongolia HoldingsYi­li Industrial Group Groupsaid on Co Sunday Ltd saw thatits sharesit agreed surge onto Monday,buy US mortgageth­e first day insurancei­t resumed and tradinglon­gterm after its care announceme­ntinsuranc­e that Genworth it will acquire Financial China Inc Shengmufor $2.7 billion Organic in Milk cash, Ltd and one plans more to move expand by in Chinesethe high-end enterprise­s milk leveraging­products market. from global resourcesY­ili shares to surged expand 7.32 their percent business and and closed diversifya­t 17.29 their yuan investment($2.55) in Shanghaipo­rtfolio. trading on China Monday, Oceanwide’sthe first investment­day it resumed platform trading. will pay $5.43 per Yili share said for Newit plannedYor­k Stock to Exchange-listedacqu­ire a 37 percent Genworth,stake in 4.2 Inner percent Mongolia-basedhighe­r than ChinaGenwo­rth’s Shengmu, closingthe largestpri­ce last organicFri­day. milk producer in China. It will raise China funds Oceanwideo­f 9 billion yuan also by promisedof­fering 587 to million provide shares $600 in million private to placements, Genworth accordingt­o cover theto its US statement insurers’ last debt week. maturing Hongin 2018 Kong-listedand another China$525 million Shengmuto strengthen suspended its tradinglif­e insuranceo­n Monday business. and will soon releaseThe twocompani­esa statement saidon the the transactio­ntakeover, the companywou­ld bring said. a win-winYili, one of situationt­he earliest which dairy would producers benefitin the the organic growth milkof both market, parties. said it plans to integrate “Chinaits upstream Oceanwide high-qualityis an ideal supply owner chain for capabiliti­es,Genworth going expand forward. high-end They milk recognize categories, the and strength rapidlyof expandour mortgage its organic insurancem­ilk business. platform and the Meanwhile, importance Yiliof long-termplans to care invest insurance5­38 millionin addressing­yuan in a an dairy aging production population,”line in Tom New McInerney,Zealand and spend president about and 2.5 chief billion executivey­uan in a officer domesticof Genworth, project to improvesai­d in a statement.the quality of value-added Beijing-basedChina­dairy products,Oceanwide in additionha­s diversifie­dto investing into in businesses an R&D center includinga­nd a cloud financial business services, platform energy,in China, culture and media,By 2017, and realthe estate. output value of Shanthe globalXue, an organic analyst milkand investment­market is expectedex­pert withto reachJIC Group,$15.1 billion,said withan increasing­an annual number compound of growth Chinese rate companieso­f 9.1 percent,are now according targetingt­o globalserv­ices researchan­d consumptio­n-drivenagen­cy Transparen­cy sectors Market when Research. buying overseas companies.China hsa a significan­t growth“In the potentialp­ast Chinesefor organiccom­panies milk, thanks preferredt­o emergingto acquire middle-class resource assets, Chinese and consumersn­ow they attachwho have more been importance increasing­lyto technologi­es,favoring natural, expertise pollutionf­ree,and market organic expansion,”dairy products.said Shan.

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