BARRY FITZGERALD

BHP's potash fifth leg comes in from the cold

IT is coming up to eight years since former BHP chief executive Marius Kloppers scared everyone by lobbing a US$39 billion takeover bid for the Canadian king of the potash world, Potash Corp (now Nutrien after its merger with Agrium).

Barry FitzGerald
 Jansen in Canada

Jansen in Canada

Thank heavens the Canadian government blocked the bid on national interest grounds as potash prices have been on the skids ever since, something BHP's current CEO Andrew Mackenzie knows well given he ran...

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