Engineering group picked off London Stock Exchange in £4.1bn deal Markets Rotork is set to become the latest company snapped off the London Stock Exchange by a foreign buyer after agreeing to a £4.1bn takeover by Swiss rival ABB. The engineering group agreed to pay 506p per share in cash for the FTSE 250 firm, comprising 503p in cash and a dividend of up to 3p. [...]
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Rotork buys South Korean firm Rotork, which makes valve controls and actuators for oil and gas, water, power and nuclear plants, said yesterday that full-year adjusted operating profit rose 8.5 per cent due mainly to acquisitions. The company also said it had agreed to buy Young Tech Co (YTC), a South Korean manufacturer and supplier of valve positioners, for £64m. [...]