Mon Nov 5, 2007 7:12am GMT
AMSTERDAM, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Avantium, a spin-off of Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research), will sell shares on Amsterdam’s stock exchange in an initial public offering of up to 30 million euros ($43.4 million), the company said on Monday.
Avantium, which offers research and development technologies to the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors, said it plans to raise between 20 million euros and 30 million euros through the issuance of news shares, it said in a statement.
The subscription period for the shares, expected to be sold between 12.50 and 16.00 euros, will last until Nov. 15, with trading due to start on Nov. 16.
Fortis (FOR.BR: Quote, Profile, Research) is the sole global coordinator and bookrunner for the IPO.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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