Friday, December 7, 2012

China want to buy Aston Martin brand

After buying the Sweden car company Volvo, Geely now is interested in another brand that is from England Aston Martin.

According to Sohu, Geely company already met and discussed to Aston Martin about ability of buying this brand.

Aston Martin
Aston Martin

UK car company had been sold to Ford in 1987, then sold to a Kuwaiti company of Investment Dar Inc. for $ 925 million USD in 2007. Current owners seem to find how to deal with debt and want to sell 64% stake in Aston Martin for $ 800 million. Besides Geely, Toyota also expressed concern with the deal.

The information previously published in Bloomberg, a private firm in London suggested the $ 401 million for half of the shares, but then turn to the Indian firm Mahindra & Mahindra outbid.

Now, in addition Geely, Toyota is also "deep concern" to hold control of Aston Martin as many meetings between the two sides over the past few weeks. Sohu also claimed that the proposed price of Aston Martin will be lower for the two new characters.

There is more information that another Chinese car company, but its name has not been disclosed.
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