Chia-Han Lee, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Friday 9 December 2016]
IPC maker Ennoconn, an affiliate company under the Foxconn Group, has said that its plans to acquire a 29.4% stake in S&T AG remains unchanged, denying market reports indicating that it plans to acquire a 100% stake in the Germany-based integrated industrial solution provider.
Ennoconn announced in October that it will invest EUR152 million (US$161.24 million) to acquire a 29.4% in S&T, looking to develop technologies related to industrial automation, network security, cloud computing communications and Big Data.
However, recent market reports indicated that the Foxconn Group might take up a 100% skate in S&T, citing company CEO Hannes Niederhauser.
Ennoconn said that it has contacted S&T to verify the statement, and it has replied that it was not the original intention of its CEO to say Foxconn plans to acquire S&T completely.
Ennoconn said it will proceed with the acquisition plans as agreed upon by the two sides previously.
Ennoconn reported recently that it posted revenues of NT$1.263 billion (US$39.67 million) for November and a total of NT$12.96 billion for the first 11 months of 2016.
