富士膠片股份有限公司（Fujifilm Holdings Corp.）的CEO坦言或將不再尋求收購美國印刷設備生產商施樂公司，對于激進投資人卡爾·伊坎要求的40美元一股的價格，這家日本公司表示不愿接受。

富士膠片的CEO古森重隆于6月7日在東京的媒體發布會上說：“這個價格太高了，我們不接受。我們也有自己的股東利益要考慮。”

富士膠片同時也表示，他們仍將對施樂提起訴訟，以尋求彌補因施樂在1月終止了一項價值61億美元的交易給富士膠片所造成的損失。古森重隆還說道，他們愿意等待半年，以便讓施樂新的管理層提供新的報價，但如果雙方談不攏條件，也可能一拍兩散。

施樂品牌曾是辦公產品的代名詞，而富士膠片CEO的這番話，則是這場施樂公司控制權拉鋸戰的最新注腳。伊坎與另一股東達爾文·迪森堅稱，與富士膠片的交易低估了施樂的價值。他倆也成功地延阻了這項交易，并讓施樂公司的CEO辭職。自那時起，富士和施樂兩家公司對于下一步怎么走，已經齟齬不合。

迪森認為，停止這項與富士膠片的新交易是“最正確的事”。說這話前，迪森等投資人倒是和幾家私募基金討論過交易的可能性，并承認會考慮至少40美元一股的報價。富士膠片則放言，由富士控制施樂是這家美國公司想要有前途的唯一選擇。富士還強調，他們在等待施樂提供新的報價。

相比施樂6月7日在紐交所的收盤價27.48美元，40美元一股的報價相當于溢價46%。富士膠片6月8日在東京證券交易所的股價下跌了0.4%。（財富中文網）

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Fujifilm Holdings Corp.’s chief executive officer said the Japanese company may walk away from efforts to take over Xerox Corp., and won’t pay the $40 a share that activist investor Carl Icahn wants for the American printer maker.

“That price is too high,” said CEO Shigetaka Komori in a media briefing on June 7 with reporters in Tokyo. “We won’t do it. We have our own shareholders that we have to think about.”

Fujifilm said it still intends to file a lawsuit seeking damages from Xerox after it terminated a $6.1 billion deal reached in January. The Japanese company is also willing to wait a half year for Xerox’s new management to come up with another offer, Komori said. Fujifilm may walk away if the companies cannot agree on conditions, he said.

The comments from the chief executive are the latest in the back-and-forth battle for control of the company whose brand once dominated office products. Icahn and shareholder Darwin Deason, who argued the Fujifilm deal undervalued Xerox, succeeded in their bid to stymie the transaction and push out the American company’s CEO. Since then, the companies have been at odds over the next step.

Deason has said that cutting a new deal with Fujifilm could be “the very best thing to do,” even as the investors have discussed a potential deal with several private equity firms and said they would consider bids of at least $40 a share. Fujifilm has said taking control of Xerox is the only option for the American company to have a future. The Japanese company has emphasized it is waiting for Xerox to come forth with a new offer.

An offer of $40 would represent a 46% premium to Xerox’s closing price of $27.48 in New York on June 7. Fujifilm shares dropped 0.4% in Tokyo trading on June 8.