Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Samsung Elec says no plans to merge with Samsung SDS

Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has no plans to merge with sister company Samsung SDS Co Ltd (018260.KS), a senior Samsung Electronics executive said on Wednesday, responding to recent market speculation about such a possibility."The management wants me to express clearly that we do not have a plan to merge with SDS," Robert Yi, Samsung Electronics' head of investor relations, said at a company event in Seoul. Some investors and analysts have said that the two companies may merge in the near future in order to ensure a stable transfer of management control from current Samsung Group [SAGR.UL] leader Lee Kun-hee to his children. (Reporting by Se Young Lee; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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