- First Guy
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Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantations ends management deal
The firm said in a stock exchange filing that management fees will no longer paid the Estate Management Services and the company itself will manage it.
The management fees paid by plantations company is a legacy of a privatization process, where the fees were structured to provide cash flow to finance an indirect leveraged buyout of the firms by its managing agent.
The practice has been blamed by analysts for draining resources needed for capital expenditure.
In Sri Lanka's commercial tea plantations date back from the British colonial era where third party 'agency houses' used to charge management fees on an arm's length basis.
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/sri-lankas-watawala-plantations-ends-management-deal/255717277
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_cse_announcements/4771395054075_.pdf
Will this positively impact WATA?
- SHARK a.k.a TAHTop contributor
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Re: Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantations ends management deal
this will improve bottom line in short term ..... but we will have to wait ans see how this will impact longterm performance in 2 to 3 yearsFirst Guy wrote:Mar 18, 2014 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantations Plc said a management agreement with Estate Management Services (Pvt) Ltd, its key shareholder has been ended.
The firm said in a stock exchange filing that management fees will no longer paid the Estate Management Services and the company itself will manage it.
The management fees paid by plantations company is a legacy of a privatization process, where the fees were structured to provide cash flow to finance an indirect leveraged buyout of the firms by its managing agent.
The practice has been blamed by analysts for draining resources needed for capital expenditure.
In Sri Lanka's commercial tea plantations date back from the British colonial era where third party 'agency houses' used to charge management fees on an arm's length basis.
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/sri-lankas-watawala-plantations-ends-management-deal/255717277
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_cse_announcements/4771395054075_.pdf
Will this positively impact WATA?
- sereneTop contributor
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Re: Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantations ends management deal
TAH wrote:this will improve bottom line in short term ..... but we will have to wait ans see how this will impact longterm performance in 2 to 3 yearsFirst Guy wrote:Mar 18, 2014 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Watawala Plantations Plc said a management agreement with Estate Management Services (Pvt) Ltd, its key shareholder has been ended.
The firm said in a stock exchange filing that management fees will no longer paid the Estate Management Services and the company itself will manage it.
The management fees paid by plantations company is a legacy of a privatization process, where the fees were structured to provide cash flow to finance an indirect leveraged buyout of the firms by its managing agent.
The practice has been blamed by analysts for draining resources needed for capital expenditure.
In Sri Lanka's commercial tea plantations date back from the British colonial era where third party 'agency houses' used to charge management fees on an arm's length basis.
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/sri-lankas-watawala-plantations-ends-management-deal/255717277
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_cse_announcements/4771395054075_.pdf
Will this positively impact WATA?
Agreed.but atleast we can happy about short term.
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