UPDATED Guinness Peat exits last asset outside Coats, sells Tower stake for $118 mln

UPDATED Guinness Peat exits last asset outside Coats, sells Tower stake for $118 mln
(Adds First NZ Capital handled sale in second paragraph, updates shares) Sept 30 (BusinessDesk) - Guinness Peat Group has sold its stake in Tower for about $118 million leaving the UK threadmaker Coats as its sole investment and signalling the end of its portfolio divestment. GPG sold about 69.6 million shares at $1.70 apiece, the company said in a statement to the NZX. That’s 5.6 percent below the level they traded On Friday. Today the stock fell 1.1 percent to $1.78. First NZ Capital handled the sale, of which at least 19.9 percent was pla...