Article: Oneida Ltd. Accepts New Offer to Sell Camden Wire Subsidiary to International Wire; Replaces Previous Agreement with Aarque

ONEIDA, N.Y., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Oneida Ltd. (NYSE: OCQ) today entered into a new agreement to sell its Camden Wire Co. subsidiary to International Wire Group Inc. of St. Louis, Mo., in a trasaction valued at approximately $60 million. The agreement replaces a previous agreement to sell Camden to a subsidiary of Aarque Capital Corp. in a transaction valued at approximately $51 million.

Oneida Chairman William D. Matthews said the Aarque agreement, announced on November 26, included terms that permitted the Oneida board to consider alternative offers by other parties, one of which was International Wire. Aarque was founded by R. Quintus Anderson, a member ...

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