Sales of forecourt business and freeholds will reduce debt from $10bn to $5.4bn
The £450m of “new equity” will come entirely from sales of Adsa properties
Tie-up will combine two businesses owned by the billionaire Issa brothers
A deal to combine the supermarket and forecourts business could be signed today
Despite calls to cut debt, the Issas’ EG Group is still looking to grow
The deal will burden Asda with more debt to create a 581-supermarket, 700-forecourt business
The Issa brothers want to merge their Asda and forecourt businesses into a £12bn retail empire
Advisers have been hired to examine sale of the 6,000-strong fuel station business