Produsen rokok terbesar Indonesia, Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna (HM Sampoerna), menyempitkan cakupan harga untuk rights issue 4-to-65 dari cakupan Rp 63.000 - Rp 77.000 ke cakupan baru pada Rp 65.000 - Rp 77.000 per saham. HM Sampoerna, unit lokal dari perusahaan raksasa tembakau global Phillip Morris International Inc., menargetkan untuk meraup 1,4 miliar dollar Amerika Serikat (AS) melalui penawaran 269,7 juta saham. Menurut laporan, perusahaan ini akan menerima pesanan dari para investor institusi dan ritel mulai dari hari Senin (21/09).

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HM Sampoerna, Indonesia's largest tobacco company, decided to close two of its seven hand-rolled cigarette factories as the company needs restructuring due to its declining market share in the country's hand-rolled cigarettes industry. The market share fell from 30.4 percent in 2009 to 23.1 percent in 2013 as consumers are shifting to machine-rolled cigarettes. HM Sampoerna's hand-rolled cigarette plants in Jember and Lumajang (both in East Java) will be closed on 31 May 2014 and will lead to the termination of 4,900 employees.

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HM Sampoerna, the largest tobacco company of Indonesia, controls about 29 percent of the Indonesian tobacco market. The company operates nine manufacturing facilities in Indonesia: two machine-made kretek production facilities as well as seven hand-rolled kretek production facilities (kretek cigarettes are the highly popular clove cigarettes, a trademark of Indonesia). The company also distributes the famous Marlboro brand on the domestic market. In 2005, Sampoerna was sold to Philip Morris, an international cigarette and tobacco giant.

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Shareholders of the largest cigarette manufacturer of Indonesia, Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna (HM Sampoerna), approved the company's plan to execute a 25-for-1 stock split. The move, aimed at making shares more affordable for retail investors thus boosting liquidity, will raise the company's total outstanding shares to 116.3 billion pieces. Since 2005 HM Sampoerna has been owned by international tobacco giant Philip Morris. The US-based company controls a 92.5 percent stake in HM Sampoerna.

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