Homegrown insurance bigwigs Great Eastern and NTUC Income have leased office space at Paya Lebar Quarter (PLQ). According to Business Times, Great Eastern - a listed subsidiary of OCBC, has leased about 125,000 sq ft on four floors of the 13-storey Tower 3 in the project. This is the same tower where SMRT has leased 97,000 sq ft (three levels) and property consulting group CBRE, 31,000 sq ft (one...
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Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) says it will accept Tecity's bid for Straits Trading. It will sell its 6.2% stake, generating proceeds of S$135.3m. The announcement comes just days after the Lee family, which controls OCBC, pulled out of the bidding war for Tecity. And on Monday, insurer Great Eastern Holdings also announced that it was selling its stake to Tecity. OCBC had been quoted earlier as...
A bidding war between two of Singapore's most famous corporate families has come to an end but not without a final climax. Insurer Great Eastern Holdings says it will sell its shares in Straits Trading to Tecity, which is controlled by the family of the late Tan Chin Tuan. On Sunday, the Lee family, the main shareholder of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp, pulled out of the race for Straits Trading, saying...