Reuters – KKR Puts $200M Into Vietnam’s Masan Consumer
U.S. buyout giant KKR & Co. has invested an additional $200 million in Vietnam's noodle and fish sauce retailer Masan Consumer Corp. in the largest single private-equity investment in the Southeast Asian country. KKR did not disclose details of how much of Masan Consumer it holds after its latest purchase of primary and secondary shares. KKR bought a 10 percent stake in Masan Consumer through a $159 million investment in 2011 in what was then the biggest private equity deal in Vietnam. Masan Consumer is a private unit of Ho Chi Minh City listed Masan Group Corp, one of Vietnam's largest private sector business groups with interests from mining to banking and which has a market value of $3.6 billion.
9 January 2013•2 mins read
