UPDATE: Fletcher meets expectations with US$840m Formica sale

UPDATE: Fletcher meets expectations with US$840m Formica sale
(Updating with share price details and investor and analyst comment from third paragraph) By Jenny Ruth Dec. 18 (BusinessDesk) - Fletcher Building says it has sold the Formica business for US$840 million, or NZ$1.226 billion, to Netherlands-based Broadview and will resume paying dividends. The sale price is comfortably within the NZ$1-1.3 billion range the market was expecting and the date of the announcement was well short of the up to 18-month timeframe that managing director Ross Taylor suggested when he announced the decision to se...