Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers Co. planned to make a new offer on US$7.2 of debt to creditors. This included BNP Paribas SA and Standard Chartered Plc. Algosaibi sought to return in the market after it has experienced the biggest corporate default in the Middle East.
According to its Chief Executive Officer Simon Charlton, the company will propose a new deal in the coming months. Algosaibi runs a bottling plant for PepsiCo Inc products in Saudi Arabia and has units ranging from finance to shipping.
Charlton added during an interview dated June 27 in Dubai that the company has directed its goal to reaching a fair and reasonable solution with all local and foreign banks. This would also help the company gets it focus back on business and gain access to credit markets.
Billionaire Maan al-Sanea owned Algosaibi and Saad Group. The companies experienced default on at least US$15.7 billion of loans in 2009.
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