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Cookson Shareholders Give Go Ahead To Demerger Plan

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Cookson Group (CKSNY) shareholders overwhelmingly approved the planned demerger of the company’s performance material division, Alent, at the shareholder meeting earlier this week. What a surprise! The demerger will be effective on December 19th and Cookson shareholders will receive one share of Alent and one share of the newly named Vesuvius for every share of Cookson owned. Both… Read More »

Cookson Pushes Forward With Spinoff Plan

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Just a few months after initiating a strategic review of its options, Cookson (LSE:CKSN) got the go ahead from its largest shareholder to proceed with a spinoff of its performance materials division. The new company will be named Alent plc and become a leading ‘global supplier of advanced surface treatment plating chemicals and electronics assembly materials’. This isn’t… Read More »