Wimm Bill Dann serves an ace in juice game

RUSSIA

       
WBD’s New York IPO attracted
remarkable liquidity

It is not every company that can use the fact that its biggest shareholder served nine years in a labour camp for “violent crime” as proof of its commitment to boosting shareholder value. Wimm Bill Dann (WBD), Russia’s biggest dairy and juice producer, did just that when it raised $200 million from US investors in the middle of February.

WBD floated a quarter of its stock on the New York Stock Exchange in Russia’s fourth-ever US IPO.

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