Deals
GBL Considers Buyout of Specialty Materials Firm Imerys
The Imerys logo inside the company’s Paris headquarters
Photographer: Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg
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Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA is exploring a potential move to buy out minority shareholders of French specialty materials firm Imerys SA, people with knowledge of the matter said.
GBL has held preliminary discussions with several buyout firms about the possibility of teaming up to take Imerys private, according to the people. The European investment firm is already Imerys’s biggest shareholder with a 55% stake, data compiled by Bloomberg show.