BARRY FITZGERALD

South32 shedding the CrapCo tag

BHP Billiton spin-off South32 copped loads of criticism for the quality of its assets early in its life as an independent company, notwithstanding that some 80% of its revenues are drawn from operations sitting in the first and second quartile of the industry cost curve. <b>By Barry FitzGerald</b>

Barry Fitzgerald
South32 shedding the CrapCo tag

“Some of the unhelpful names we got after we demerged from BHP for a while was SpinCo, CrapCo and ShitCo,’’ South32 chief executive Graham Kerr was to lament. But the unhelpful sobriquets are no more....

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