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      "text": "Whilst the strategic objective to create a world-class standalone transition metals focused business (“MetalsCo”) is in the best interest of both Glencore and Teck (an outcome we fully endorse), the business combination of steelmaking coal business (Teck) and thermal-coal business (Glencore) destroys value, not only for the reasons stated by Teck, but also because Teck’s coal business is not in run-off mode, whilst Glencore announced that “rundown strategy is the responsible strategy for both our business and for the world” (CEO Gary Nagle, Investor Update, 2nd December, 2021).",
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      "text": "Not only have you failed to prepare adequately, by pursuing meritless arguments to push-back on the spin-off of thermal coal, but subsequently Glencore has proposed an unsolicited business combination which is sub-optimal for both Glencore's and Teck's shareholders, creating unnecessary execution risk for both companies and fails to maximize shareholder value for all parties involved.",
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      "text": "Barring Glencore being prepared to announce a U-turn on its rundown strategy (in fairness, we never believed it is your genuine intention to phase-out thermal coal), the combination (“CoalCo”) of two business with questionable synergies, one of which in rundown, would be value destructive as the pursuit of such a strategy would be depressing the terminal value of the combined business. This concern would certainly not be addressed by the cash element introduced with your April 11th revised offer to simply buy Teck shareholders out of their coal exposure.",
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