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"Exit plan for Aston Martin's Kuwaiti shareholder": according to Arabian Busines
"Speaking exclusively to Arabian Business, Aston Martin chairman David Richards said the car company’s planned initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange in the next “three to five years” could signal the Kuwaiti investor’s exit from the business.
“It’s [the IPO] certainly a long-time option as an exit plan,” Richards said. “Everyone has to have an exit plan for everything; it doesn’t have to be a total exit but there needs to be a plan in process and these things are never kept on a shelf forever. Investment Dar needs to, at some point, realise the assets for its investors.”"