AI,Inc. completed the acquisition of approximately 40.53% stake in FueTrek Co., Ltd. (TSE : 2468) from Glory Ltd..
June 07, 2023
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AI,Inc. (TSE:4388) agreed to acquire approximately 40.53% stake in FueTrek Co., Ltd. (TSE:2468) from Glory Ltd. (TSE:6457) for approximately ¥860 million on May 11, 2023. The offer price per share is ¥226. AI,Inc. has set the maximum and minimum number of shares to be tendered at 3,793,200. The Tender Offer Period will start on May 12, 2023 and ends on June 8, 2023. FueTrek board has expressed its opinion in favor of tender offer. Ey Strategy Consulting acted as a financial advisor to Glory Ltd. SBI Securities Co., Ltd. acted as a financial advisor, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto LPC acted as a legal advisor to AI,Inc. Tokai Tokyo Securities Co., Ltd. acted as a financial advisor and Hibiya-Nakata acted as a legal advisor to FueTrek Co., Ltd.
AI,Inc. (TSE:4388) completed the acquisition of approximately 40.53% stake in FueTrek Co., Ltd. (TSE : 2468) from Glory Ltd. (TSE:6457) on June 8, 2023.
AI,Inc. mainly engages in research and development of Japanese speech synthesis engines, sales and supporting of its products. The corporate products include AITalk and AITalk Internationa. The Company's main business model is the licensing business. It also engages in contract development of customer's original voice dictionary. The corporate services include cloud services and support services. Cloud services engage in development of voice synthesis service utilizing cloud environment and provision of service via the Internet. Support services provide technical support services to customers licensing corporate products. For consumer products, it engages in sales of packages that make it easy to create audio files.