Maersk: New structure allows for new acquisitions

2013-12-20

The new ownership structure in A. P. Moller - Maersk where Ane Maersk Mc -Kinney Uggla has decided to shoot a holding company between the AP Møller Foundation and A. P. Moller - Maersk , is opening up new acquisitions outside Maersk Group. This is evaluated by an expert.

"It opens a lot of new opportunities for Maersk family fund and to do more than to be a major shareholder of AP Moller-Maersk ," says Martin Jes Iversen , associate professor of business history at CBS to Børsen .

Ane Maersk Mc -Kinney Uggla , who today is chairman of AP Møller Foundation and also will be chairman of the new holding company is not averse to the idea of new acquisitions.

"You can well imagine acquisitions under the auspices of the holding company , but we have no concrete ideas ," says Ane Maersk Mc -Kinney Uggla told the newspaper.

A. P. Møller Foundation currently controls Å.P. Moller - Maersk with a stake of 41.5 percent of the capital and 51.1 percent of the voting shares in the company. Maersk shares are listed and the rest of the shares are short preamble on a variety of large and small shareholders.

Ane Maersk Mc -Kinney Uggla took over last year, the powerful post of president of AP Møller Foundation after his father , the late shipping magnate Mærsk Mc- Kinney Møller.

Source from : Børsen / Maritime Denmark

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