Business Nigeria: AMCON to Sell its Stake in Peugeot Car Plant

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Nigeria's state-backed "bad bank", the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on Tuesday announced that it plans to sell its majority stake in Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) Limited, a local joint venture with the major French automaker, and is seeking bids from investors.

In a statement, AMCON said it owned 79.3 percent of PAN Nigeria Limited, having acquired the stake four years ago after purchasing the company's debt and taking some as equity.

PAN Nigeria Limited was set up in 1972 as a joint venture between the Nigerian government and France's Peugeot, with an annual production of 90,000 cars by the 1980s.

Peugeot Citroen is the technical partner to the Nigerian assembly plant, which has capacity to assemble 240 cars a day, PAN said on its website.

But operations nosedived and the company accumulated bad loans shortly after the government sold its stake via a privatisation to local core investors in 2006.


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