Japan's staffing agency Recruit Holdings Co Ltd said November 30 its shareholders will sell 416.8bn yen ($4 billion) worth of shares in the company as they continue to unwind cross-shareholdings, as it was informed by the Company.
Recruit's shareholders, which include Dentsu Group Inc, Toppan Printing Co and Japanese television networks, will sell as many as 94.7 million shares in Recruit, or 5.59% of its outstanding shares to overseas investors.
This is the third sale of shares by Recruit's shareholders since the company went public in 2014. The sale comes amid a years-long trend of Japanese companies unwinding cross-share holdings. After the past two sales, the holdings in Recruit by its business partners have fallen to 24% as of September from 50% at the time of the listing, a Recruit spokeswoman said.
J Recruit said the shareholders would sell 86.1 million shares to the market, with an additional 8.6 million shares as an overallotment.
The selling price will be decided either on Dec. 2 or Dec. 3.
Recruit also said it would buy back 70bn yen worth of shares, or as many as 20 million shares, from the market to boost shareholder value.
