卡尔·伊坎咬定施乐值40美元一股，富士胶片CEO坦言“价格太高付不起”

富士胶片股份有限公司（Fujifilm Holdings Corp.）的CEO坦言或将不再寻求收购美国印刷设备生产商施乐公司，对于激进投资人卡尔·伊坎要求的40美元一股的价格，这家日本公司表示不愿接受。

富士胶片的CEO古森重隆于6月7日在东京的媒体发布会上说：“这个价格太高了，我们不接受。我们也有自己的股东利益要考虑。”

富士胶片同时也表示，他们仍将对施乐提起诉讼，以寻求弥补因施乐在1月终止了一项价值61亿美元的交易给富士胶片所造成的损失。古森重隆还说道，他们愿意等待半年，以便让施乐新的管理层提供新的报价，但如果双方谈不拢条件，也可能一拍两散。

施乐品牌曾是办公产品的代名词，而富士胶片CEO的这番话，则是这场施乐公司控制权拉锯战的最新注脚。伊坎与另一股东达尔文·迪森坚称，与富士胶片的交易低估了施乐的价值。他俩也成功地延阻了这项交易，并让施乐公司的CEO辞职。自那时起，富士和施乐两家公司对于下一步怎么走，已经龃龉不合。

迪森认为，停止这项与富士胶片的新交易是“最正确的事”。说这话前，迪森等投资人倒是和几家私募基金讨论过交易的可能性，并承认会考虑至少40美元一股的报价。富士胶片则放言，由富士控制施乐是这家美国公司想要有前途的唯一选择。富士还强调，他们在等待施乐提供新的报价。

相比施乐6月7日在纽交所的收盘价27.48美元，40美元一股的报价相当于溢价46%。富士胶片6月8日在东京证券交易所的股价下跌了0.4%。（财富中文网）

译者：宣峰 

Fujifilm Holdings Corp.’s chief executive officer said the Japanese company may walk away from efforts to take over Xerox Corp., and won’t pay the $40 a share that activist investor Carl Icahn wants for the American printer maker.

“That price is too high,” said CEO Shigetaka Komori in a media briefing on June 7 with reporters in Tokyo. “We won’t do it. We have our own shareholders that we have to think about.”

Fujifilm said it still intends to file a lawsuit seeking damages from Xerox after it terminated a $6.1 billion deal reached in January. The Japanese company is also willing to wait a half year for Xerox’s new management to come up with another offer, Komori said. Fujifilm may walk away if the companies cannot agree on conditions, he said.

The comments from the chief executive are the latest in the back-and-forth battle for control of the company whose brand once dominated office products. Icahn and shareholder Darwin Deason, who argued the Fujifilm deal undervalued Xerox, succeeded in their bid to stymie the transaction and push out the American company’s CEO. Since then, the companies have been at odds over the next step.

Deason has said that cutting a new deal with Fujifilm could be “the very best thing to do,” even as the investors have discussed a potential deal with several private equity firms and said they would consider bids of at least $40 a share. Fujifilm has said taking control of Xerox is the only option for the American company to have a future. The Japanese company has emphasized it is waiting for Xerox to come forth with a new offer.

An offer of $40 would represent a 46% premium to Xerox’s closing price of $27.48 in New York on June 7. Fujifilm shares dropped 0.4% in Tokyo trading on June 8.