{"id":7049,"date":"2021-04-30T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/wendel-sassocie-a-la-famille-deconinck-pour-le-rachat-de-titres-de-la-societe-tarkett\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:29:51","slug":"wendel-partners-with-the-deconinck-family-to-acquire-the-shares-of-tarkett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wendel-partners-with-the-deconinck-family-to-acquire-the-shares-of-tarkett\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendel partners with the Deconinck family to acquire the shares of Tarkett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n    data-observer=\"item\"\n    data-animation-type=\"fade\"\n    class=\"module module-text with-margin-top- no-padding- add-bottom-padding- is-center-\"\n>\n    <div class=\"module-content\">\n        <div class=\"grid\">\n            <div class=\"row r-1\">\n                <div class=\"column-8\">\n                    <div class=\"text-content\">\n                        <p>On April 23, 2021, Wendel announced that as part of its 2021-24 investment strategy, it had teamed up with the Deconinck family to form Tarkett Participation and support Tarkett\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>This investment will be accompanied by an offer to acquire Tarkett shares. Depending on the success of the offer, Wendel will hold up to 30% of Tarkett Participation, alongside the Deconinck family, which will maintain a controlling stake in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Wendel will be represented on Tarkett\u2019s board of directors and will have corporate governance rights commensurate with the level of its minority shareholding.<\/p>\n<p>Following this announcement, Andr\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois-Poncet, Wendel Group CEO, said:\u00a0<em>\u201cWendel is extremely proud to join forces with the founding family in this transaction. Tarkett is a prime example of entrepreneurship, and we are pleased to support the company over the long term, alongside members of the family. The transaction illustrates the Wendel team\u2019s ability to identify investment opportunities which fit our long-term investor profile. We are eager to support Tarkett in its future growth, by bringing to bear all of Wendel\u2019s skills and expertise, in particular in Europe and North America.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div\n    data-observer=\"item\"\n    data-animation-type=\"fade\"\n    class=\"module module-buttons with-margin-top- no-padding-1 add-bottom-padding-1\"\n>\n    <div class=\"module-content\">\n        <div class=\"grid\">\n            <div class=\"row r-1\">\n                <div class=\"column-8\">\n                                            <div class=\"button arrow-button brown\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/presse\/2021_04_23_wendel_tarkett_eng.pdf\" target=\"_self\">\n            <svg\n    class=\"arrow-right-icon\"\n    xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"\n    viewBox=\"0 0 15 16\"\n>\n    <path\n        d=\"M7.375 0l7.601 7.601-7.601 7.602-1.06-1.06 5.89-5.893H0v-1.5h12.003L6.314 1.06 7.375 0z\"\n    \/>\n<\/svg>\n        <span class=\"text\">For more information, please read the press release published on April 23, 2021<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n    <\/div>                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letter-to-shareholders","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}