加拿大钾肥指责必和必拓“不道德”

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The hostilities between PotashCorp and its suitor BHP Billiton escalated yesterday when the Canadian fertiliser producer accused the multinational miner of “highly unethical” behaviour.
加拿大钾肥(PotashCorp)与企图收购它的必和必拓(BHP Billiton)之间的敌意昨日升级。加拿大钾肥指责必和必拓这家跨国矿商的行为“极不道德”。

Potash said that BHP had made unsolicited contact with its customers as part of BHP’s $39bn hostile bid for the Canadian company.
加拿大钾肥表示，必和必拓主动接洽自己的客户，作为其对加拿大钾肥390亿美元敌意收购的一部分。

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Stephen Dowdle, PotashCorp’s sales chief, said in a letter to customers that the company had learnt that BHP had “begun to cold call many of you”.
加拿大钾肥销售主管斯蒂芬•德尔(Stephen Dowdle)在一封致客户的信中表示，该公司了解到，必和必拓已经“开始主动打电话给你们当中的许多人”。

“We can only assume that BHP Billiton’s purpose is to sow seeds of doubt and confusion about the future of PotashCorp,” he said.
“我们只能假定，必和必拓的目的是播下有关加拿大钾肥未来疑惑的种子，”他表示。

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Mr Dowdle added: “Since the purpose of BHP Billiton’s call clearly was not to solicit your potash order from BHP Billiton’s Jansen project ... we consider this contact to be inappropriate and highly unethical.”
德尔补充称：“由于必和必拓来电的目的显然不是争取阁下从必和必拓的Jansen项目订购钾肥……我们认为这种接洽欠妥，也极不道德。”

BHP’s Jansen project is a large greenfield potash development in Saskatchewan, the Canadian province where PotashCorp is based.
必和必拓Jansen项目是一个尚未投产的大型钾矿开发项目，位于加拿大萨斯喀彻温省。加拿大钾肥的总部也位于该省。

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BHP declined to comment on the latest spat, which follows the group’s $130 a share cash offer to take over PotashCorp, launched a week and a half ago. PotashCorp has rejected the offer as “grossly inadequate”.
必和必拓拒绝就最新的口水战置评。一个半星期前，该集团向加拿大钾肥发出每股130美元的现金收购报价。加拿大钾肥拒绝了这一报价，称其“太低”。

People familiar with BHP said that it was not uncommon on a deal of this type to make contact with a range of interested parties.
熟悉必和必拓的人士表示，在此类交易中接触相关各方的做法并非罕见。

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PotashCorp’s letter to its customers, which was disclosed in a filing to regulators, came after customers alerted the company to the calls from BHP, said one person familiar with the situation. In a swipe at BHP, Mr Dowdle had raised “questions about our ability to do business across the nutrient spectrum as well as the future location and make-up of our sales organisation”.
加拿大钾肥向监管机构申报了其致客户的信。据一名知情人士透露，此前一些客户提醒该公司称，他们接到了必和必拓的电话。作为对必和必拓的抨击，德尔在信中提到了“有关我们在所有肥料领域开展业务的能力问题，以及我们的销售业务未来地点和构成的问题”。

The letter went on to reassure customers that PotashCorp remained “your go-to source for your fertiliser needs”, adding “we are always here for you”.
这封信接着促请客户放心：加拿大钾肥仍是“满足您的肥料需求的首选来源”，而且“我们将始终在这里为阁下效力”。

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