date:Sep 21, 2012
ement by the Thai companies and Heineken released late Tuesday European time and in the early hours of Wednesday in Asia.
Charoen, whose companies own just below 31 percent of FN, launched a $7.2 billion offer last week to acquire the rest, a move seen at the time as possibly derailing Heineken's $6.3 billion bid to buy out the holdings of FN and others in APB.
After two months of steadily higher offers for FN and APB, bound together by a complex ownership structure, the Thais and the Dutch br