Thursday, July 12, 2007

RPT-UPDATE 1-NEWSMAKER-Alcan's Evans to head new Rio Tinto Alcan

(Reuters) - If Rio's all-cash $38.1 billion bid for the Canadian
company succeeds, it will wrap its combined aluminum assets
into a new entity to be called Rio Tinto Alcan, with industry
veteran Evans at the helm.




The deal gives Evans -- who has only been in the top job at
Alcan since March 2006 -- a role in a what is being billed by
some as the world's biggest mining deal and the largest
takeover in Canadian history.


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