Apple Supplier Japan Display Secures Bailout After Funding Shortfall

Apple is believed to be investing $100 million in the company.

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By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 12 July 2019 13:22 IST

Japan Display said on Friday that a group led by Chinese investment firm Harvest Group had formally secured additional funding for a previously announced JPY 80 billion ($738 million) bailout plan for the screen maker. Harvest would increase its investment, including a $100 million investment from a JDI customer, Japan Display said. A source previously said that customer was Apple.

The Japanese company said it planned to hold a shareholders meeting on August 29 to formalise the bailout plan.

Apple's recent shift away from liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) has triggered a funding crunch for Japan Display, which depended on the US smartphone maker for 60.6 percent of its revenue in the last financial year ended March.

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Harvest has been leading a consortium to keep Japan Display afloat, but Taiwanese screen maker TPK Holding Co and financial firm CGL Group dropped out of the process in June.

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Japan Display also said that Hong Kong-based activist investor Oasis Management, already part of the bailout consortium, has offered to extend more financing if currency fluctuations result in a shortfall.

Apple was earlier said to make a $100 million investment in Japan Display.

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Japan Display was formed in 2012 by combining the liquid-crystal display businesses of Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony in a government-brokered deal. It went public in March 2014, at which time it was worth over JPY 400 billion.

Written with inputs from Reuters

 

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