Toyota deal to take key supplier private delayed to February or later

FILE PHOTO: An employee works under a Toyota Motor Corp logo at the company's showroom in Tokyo, Japan February 5, 2016. Toyota Motor Corp raised on Friday its full-year sales forecast for North America due to strong demand in the United States, while posting a lower-than-expected operating profit for the third quarter due to an increase in expenses. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Toyota Motor said on Monday that its tender offer for forklift maker Toyota Industries is now likely to begin in February or later.
This is pushing back a previously expected early December launch.
The Toyota group had said in June that Toyota Industries would be taken private through a holding company into which Toyota Motor, Toyota Fudosan and Toyota Chairperson Akio Toyoda would invest.
The tender offer would start after receiving regulatory approval.
–Reuters–
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