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Air Products CEO Seifi Ghasemi on Air Liquide/Airgas deal: “We have no intention of bidding”

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Air Products Chairman, President and CEO Seifi Ghasemi was among the speakers at this week’s Citi Basic Materials Conference in New York.

He discussed the future of Air Products on its current plan for growth and the recent spinoff of its Materials Technologies branch to the new company, Versum, and took a quick moment to comment on the recent acquisition of Airgas by Air Liquide. He made the company’s position clear:

”There has been some speculation that we are going to participate in any kind of bidding for Airgas. We are not going to do that. We think a full price has been paid and therefore we have no intention of participating in any kind of bidding for that asset.” –Seifi Ghasemi, Air Products

His comments were particularly resonant in light of Air Products’ 2010 hostile takeover attempt of Airgas, which Airgas foiled with a “poison pill” threat because they felt that Air Products’ $70/share price was too low. Air Liquide has put out more than twice that at $143/share, totaling in a $13.4 billion deal, including debt.

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