Append below all articles under the heading of IPO & Privatization:  Whether Want To Go For IPO listing Can we meet the criteria for IPO in Malaysia?  Privatization-From listed to private Malysian Privatization News-MMC To take Malakoff Private In Record Deal Going Private Seems To Be The Growing Trend  Exploring IPO In Vietnam  IPO Development In Malaysia Malaysia-IPO Statistics In Q3’07 

IPO statistics from Securities Commission in Quarter 3′2007:

it received 13 new IPO applications in Q3, almost double the seven received in Q2;

the size of initial public offerings (IPOs) approved grew substantially in the third quarter (Q3). The potential market capitalisation of three IPO applications approved in Q3 amounted to RM2.41bil compared with RM414mil for the […]

There is an increasing trend where public listed companies would pursue the going private option.
This is particularly so when listed companies have failed after using share-buyback to boost up their share prices.
Incidentally in a very recent case, Penang printed circuit board maker GUH Holdings Bhd’s board opt for share buyback and announced that if this same does not work […]

Interestingly, Furniweb Manufacturing ( Vietnam) Co Ltd (FMV) which is a subsidiary of Malaysian public listed company, Furniweb Industrial Products Bhd was reported in The Star (22/1/07) to explore listing in Vietnam vide the Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Centre. Also, this might be the first time that a Malaysian corporate is looking into […]

Reported in The Business Time (25/9/06), the IPO listing has been rather slow compared to previous years. ( refer below table)

“As at September 7, the number of IPOs had fallen by more than half to 31 listings from 79 last year, mainly due to a drastic drop in Mesdaq debutants, data from Bursa Malaysia show.”
However, […]