Takeover target Pact Group has axed 175 jobs, put a Victorian business up for sale and is weighing up whether to proceed with a renewed attempt at selling its entire contract manufacturing business valued at close to $130 million.
The company’s second-largest shareholder, IML, continues to be scathing about the price of a buyout offer pitched by its major backer, Rich Lister Raphael Geminder, whose Kin Group in mid-September launched a 68¢-a-share bid at a time when the stock was trading at 67.5¢.