SITEL Shareholders Vote in Favor of Merger with ClientLogic Corporation
January 12 2007 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
ClientLogic Corporation and SITEL Corporation (NYSE:SWW), both
leading global business process outsourcing providers, announced
today that at SITEL�s 2006 Annual Meeting, held earlier today,
SITEL�s shareholders voted to approve the proposed merger with
ClientLogic Corporation. More than 71.9 million, or approximately
96%, of SITEL�s outstanding common shares were voted at the
meeting, with more than 97% of voted shares voting in favor of the
merger. The merger is expected to close in late January 2007 or
early February 2007. The merger has been cleared by the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission and the Canadian
Commissioner of Competition. Under the terms of the merger
agreement approved by SITEL shareholders, SITEL shareholders will
receive $4.25 per share in cash. Jim Lynch, Founder, Chairman and
CEO of SITEL Corporation, stated, �We're extremely pleased to see
that our shareholders recognize the significant value created from
the merger with ClientLogic. I am also happy that our loyal
employees have an opportunity to join a combined company that will
be a leader in our industry for years to come. I thank our
shareholders, clients, and employees for their years of support and
dedication.� Dave Garner, CEO and President of ClientLogic,
commented, �We look forward to the completion of the deal and the
ability to combine these two excellent companies, creating the
industry leader. Our continued focus will be to ensure that we
deliver the utmost benefit to our valued clients, associates, and
other stakeholders." At the annual meeting, SITEL�s shareholders
also voted to re-elect current directors Rohit Desai, David Hanger
and Stephen Key as Class II directors to serve on SITEL�s Board of
Directors until the closing of the merger. About SITEL Corporation
SITEL is a leading global provider of outsourced customer support
services. On behalf of many of the world's leading organizations,
SITEL designs and improves customer contact models across its
clients' customer acquisition, retention, and development cycles.
SITEL manages approximately two million customer interactions per
day via the telephone, e-mail, Internet, and traditional mail.
SITEL has over 42,000 employees in 101 global contact centers
located in 26 countries. SITEL is a leader in the contact center
industry. Please visit SITEL�s website at www.sitel.com for further
information. About ClientLogic Corporation ClientLogic is a leading
global business process outsourcing (BPO) provider in the customer
care and back office processing industries. ClientLogic's global
footprint spans 49 facilities in 13 countries throughout North
America, Europe, Africa, Central America and Asia. ClientLogic's
consistent service quality across channels, media and countries
helps clients improve their return on customer investment by
reducing service cost, improving customer retention and increasing
revenue per customer. ClientLogic's industry-leading clients
include Sony Corporation, DIRECTV, ABN AMRO, British Telecom (BT),
LTU, Neuf Telecom and United Online (Juno/NetZero). A subsidiary of
Canadian diversified company Onex Corporation, ClientLogic is among
the top five global customer care providers, managing more than
half a million customer interactions each day of the year. For more
information, please visit http://www.clientlogic.com.
Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These include
statements as to the date of the closing of the merger. Other
forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of the
words �expects,� �will� and similar expressions. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statement
is made and SITEL assumes no obligation to update such statements.
Although SITEL believes that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no
assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Because
forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, the ability to achieve required
closing conditions including credit conditions and legislative and
regulatory changes and the fact that the transaction may not close
or may be delayed, future events and actual results could differ
materially from those set forth in, contemplated by or underlying
the forward-looking statements. SITEL�s Form 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K
reports filed with the SEC describe other important factors that
may impact SITEL�s business, results of operation and financial
condition and cause actual results to differ materially from those
set forth in, contemplated by or underlying the forward-looking
statements. Additional Information about the Merger and Where to
Find It In connection with the proposed merger of Stagecoach
Acquisition Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of ClientLogic
Corporation with and into SITEL, SITEL filed a definitive proxy
statement on December 11, 2006 with the SEC. The definitive proxy
statement contains additional information about the merger. The
proxy statement and other relevant materials and any other
documents filed by SITEL with the SEC may be obtained free of
charge at the SEC�s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors
and security holders may obtain free copies of the documents filed
with the SEC by SITEL by accessing SITEL�s website at
www.sitel.com.
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