BARRY FITZGERALD

South32 to step up returns and M&A from South African coal exit

SOUTH32 chief executive officer Graham Kerr has given his most frank assessment yet of the reasons behind the BHP spin-off’s planned exit from its 27.5Mtpa South African domestic and export energy coal business.

Barry FitzGerald
South32 CEO Graham Kerr

South32 CEO Graham Kerr

His frankness in a presentation to Merrill Lynch's mega metals and mining conference in Miami took things much further than South32's bland "it would be better in the hands of South Africans" ASX announcements...

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