HONG KONG, Could 7, 2025 – (ACN Newswire) – On 6 Could 2025, CALB Group Co., Ltd. (“CALB” or “the Firm”, inventory code: 3931.HK) introduced that it intends to amass 11% of the shares of A-share listed firm Jiangsu Olive Sensors Excessive-tech Company Restricted (“Jiangsu Olive Sensors”, inventory code: 300507.SZ) by way of the Share Switch Settlement. Because the Jiangsu Olive Sensors’ authentic precise controller offers up majority of the voting rights, CALB will change into the controlling shareholder and precise controller of Jiangsu Olive Sensors. The re-elected board of administrators of Jiangsu Olive Sensors will consist of 5 administrators, all of whom shall be nominated by CALB. As well as, Jiangsu Olive Sensors intends to personal place its 15% shares to CALB, after these shares issuing, CALB’s shareholding and voting rights will improve to 22.61%.
This transaction highlights expectations of the unique precise controller of Jiangsu Olive Sensors for the strategic entry of CALB. Furthermore, by way of the deep empowerment of CALB, Jiangsu Olive Sensors will likely be deeply built-in into the brand new vitality business chain, anchored in a broader market and sustained efficiency progress, and obtain a twin enhancement of efficiency and valuation within the wave of latest vitality growth and revolution. Leveraging its international market presence and chain-leading place within the new vitality sector, CALB will present Jiangsu Olive Sensors with complete, multi-scenario empowerment, additional selling Jiangsu Olive Sensors’ future growth throughout the upstream and downstream industrial chain.
This transaction is among the restricted instances that H-share listed firm acquires A-share listed firm for the reason that introduction of the “Six Articles on M&A”. It should change into one other benchmark case for M&A and restructuring to enliven the capital market and promote industrial upgrading. In April 2024, State Council of China issued “9 New Tips” for capital market, which clearly indicated that it will intensify the reform of M&A and take measures to activate the market of M&A and restructuring. In September 2024, China Securities Regulatory Fee issued the New Measures Geared toward Guiding Mergers and Acquisitions amongst Listed Corporations, which additional identified that it helps listed firms to rework and improve themselves within the new qualitative productiveness and encourages listed firms to strengthen industrial integration.
Within the background of M&A and restructuring wave continues to advertise, CALB’s acquisition of holding Jiangsu Olive Sensors is a optimistic response to the nationwide technique but additionally performs a strategic follow of the “chain chief” position main the brand new vitality business chain. This transaction will assist to realize the robust mixture of the 2 firms and collectively to advertise the high-quality growth of the brand new vitality business by way of the 2 firms’ synergistic empowerment in lots of areas. Business insiders identified that industrial upgrading and effectivity enchancment resulting from M&A and integration is anticipated to lead to a valuation premium, and business chain leaders can have extra alternatives for valuation reshaping.
In actual fact, CALB and the goal firm Jiangsu Olive Sensors are each within the automotive business chain and are the main enterprises of their respective segments. CALB is the primary EV battery firm listed on the Hong Kong Inventory Alternate. As a globally influential battery specialist, its passenger automobile shoppers have coated main home and worldwide automakers, together with XPeng, Geely, Changan, GAC, Leapmotor, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Audi. Within the industrial automobile sector, its key shoppers have encompassed main enterprises throughout the sunshine and heavy industrial automobile fields equivalent to Chery, Geely, Ruichi, Foton, Dongfeng, Sinotruk, XCMG, SANY, and Shaanxi Car. Within the discipline of vitality storage sector, CALB has established cooperative relationship with the “5 Main and Six Main” energy teams, and has achieved strategic cooperation with many main enterprises equivalent to Sungrow Energy, SPIC, CNN Wealthy Vitality and China Vitality Building, and so forth. In 2024, CALB’s put in capability of EV batterie ranked fourth globally and the third domestically, and its vitality storage cell shipments additionally ranked fifth globally, constructing a closed loop of the brand new vitality business ecosystem with a diversified format overlaying all situations equivalent to passenger automobiles, industrial automobiles, vitality storage, ships, and eVTOL.
For CALB, this acquisition may also additional improve the Firm’s worth. It’s reported that Jiangsu Olive Sensors, the goal of this acquisition, is among the main home automotive sensor firms. The corporate has greater than 30 years {of professional} expertise within the business. Since 2022, its income progress has continued to develop at double digits, and its enterprise transformation has proven outcomes. In recent times, with the fast innovation of the automotive business, new vitality and intelligence have entered the essential part, and Jiangsu Olive Sensors has additionally taken the initiative to rework and improve to the sector of latest vitality automobile components. From an business perspective, the sensors and thermal administration techniques it focuses on have vital software house within the fields of battery intelligence and battery security. In opposition to this background, CALB will give full play to its sources and benefits within the new vitality business chain by way of M&A, empowering the enterprise growth of Jiangsu Olive Sensors and additional enhancing the company worth of each events.
General, CALB’s strategic deployment will leverage its sources and benefits throughout the brand new vitality and automotive business chains. This may allow it to empower high-potential targets with technological experience, unlock the expansion potential of Jiangsu Olive Sensors, and set up a growth mannequin the place chain-leading enterprises drive innovation in specialised and complicated enterprises that produce new and distinctive merchandise—in the end accelerating industrial upgrading. Shifting ahead, the 2 events are anticipated to foster extra in depth and in-depth cooperation, creating synergies in industrial chain coordination and market enlargement, thereby enhancing complete competitiveness in new vitality and good applied sciences, enabling mutual progress and stronger market positions for win-win growth. On a strategic stage, CALB’s acquisition of Jiangsu Olive Sensors might mirror longer-term and extra profound strategic concerns.
About CALB
CALB is a brand new vitality enterprise specializing within the analysis, manufacturing, gross sales, and market software growth of lithium batteries, battery administration techniques, and associated built-in merchandise and lithium battery supplies. As Battery Professional, we intention to construct a complete vitality operation system, to offer full product options and full life-cycle administration for the brand new vitality software market, represented by energy and vitality storage.
Presently, CALB has accomplished an all-round format in home by organising industrial bases in Changzhou, Xiamen, Wuhan, Chengdu, Hefei, Jiangmen and Meishan. In the meantime, CALB has arrange bases in Europe and ASEAN, vigorously increasing the format everywhere in the world to change into a world main enterprise with large-scale clever manufacturing capabilities.
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Supply: CALB Co., Ltd.
Sectors: EVs, Transportation, Manufacturing
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