Walter buys Western for $3.2B

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:21 p.m. December 3, 2010
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Walter Energy bought Western Coal for $2.1 billion in cash plus 9 million shares of Walter Energy stock, creating the world's largest publicly-traded metallurgical coal producer.

 

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