Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies : 3/21/2017 Wabtec Completes Acquisition of Remaining Shares of Faiveley Transport
March 21, 2017 at 10:01 am EDT
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WILMERDING, PA, March 21, 2017 - Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) has completed the acquisition of the remaining shares of Faiveley Transport by implementing a mandatory squeeze-out procedure at the price of the cash tender offer, a cash payment of 100 euros for each outstanding Faiveley Transport share. As a result, Faiveley Transport's shares were delisted from Euronext Paris.
Wabtec Corporation (www.wabtec.com) is a leading global provider of equipment, systems and value-added services for transit and freight rail. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures a range of products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles. The company also builds new switcher and commuter locomotives, and provides aftermarket services. The company has facilities located throughout the world.
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Faiveley Transport is incorporated in France and listed on Euronext Paris and any offer for its securities will be subject to French disclosure and procedural requirements, which differ from those that are applicable to offers conducted solely in the U.S., including with respect to withdrawal rights, offer timetable, settlement procedures and timing of payments. The transactions described above will be structured to comply with French and U.S. securities laws and regulations applicable to transactions of this type. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of value-added technological equipment, systems and services for the transportation sector. The activity is aorganized primarily around 4 families of products and services:
- electronics and special products: including electronic positive train control and pneumatic braking systems, event recorders, monitoring equipment, couplings, gears, couplers, air compressors and heat exchangers;
- transit products: heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment, doors for buses and metro cars, pantographs, window assemblies, couplers, traction motors, etc.;
- brake components and friction products;
- refurbishment, overhaul and construction services: suburban locomotive construction and switching, overhaul and refurbishment of buses, subway cars and locomotives.
Net sales per market are divided between rail freight transport (71.9%), bus, metro and high-speed train transport (28.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (47%), North America (9.1%), Europe (17%), South America (3.6%), Africa (1.1%) and other (22.2%).