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...Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning to focus hard on quality when the 1997 financial crisis swept through Asia, forcing Korea to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout. Samsung Electronics paid heavily for its parent's misguided investments, which included a $3 billion foray into carmaking...
...benefits for shareholders and companies alike. Kingfisher even managed to recoup $1.4 billion from its Woolworths spin-off by selling the physical stores to a property manager, who in turn leased them back to the new, independent Woolworths. The third option is the carve-out. That's when a parent company floats a portion of a division in an initial public offering (IPO), retaining the lion's share for itself. That's what Switzerland's Nestlé has planned for Alcon, its U.S. eye-care unit. Nestlé expects to float nearly 25% of it in a $2.3 billion...
Minichiello of Spin-off Advisors says carve-outs enable parent companies to establish a division's market value, a particularly useful exercise if they plan to bail out of it altogether in a few years. Nestlé insists that it has no plans to sever all ties to Alcon, though analysts still expect the food giant to untether the eye-care group eventually. As for Deutsche Telekom, it won't be Europe's first long-distance operator to unload a wireless unit. British Telecom last year spun off mm02, and France Telcom floated a piece of its Orange mobile unit...
...Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning to focus hard on quality when the 1997 financial crisis swept through Asia, forcing Korea to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout. Samsung Electronics paid heavily for its parent's misguided investments, which included a $3 billion foray into carmaking...