by Elizabeth Wilmot

THE industrial safety footwear manufacturer King's Safetywear announced yesterday that it would be delisted from the Singapore Exchange's mainboard tomorrow.

The privatisation follows the completion of the compulsory acquisition exercise by Safe Step Group yesterday.

Safe Step Group now holds all the issued ordinary shares of King's Safetywear, a company that began here 43 years ago.

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