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Vow ASA – Vow supports proposed new strategic ownership of VGM with undertaking to tender its shares in the company
NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO AUSTRALIA, CANADA, HONG KONG, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL OR REQUIRE PRIOR APPROVAL Vow ASA ("Vow" or the "Company") refers to the stock exchange announcement made earlier today by Vow Green Metals AS ("VGM") and Midas Industri AS, a newly incorporated Norwegian private limited liability company indirectly owned by HitecVision New Energy Fund 2 SCSp, regarding a contemplated reco
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