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St Louis-based P & L Coal Holdings Corp., the parent company of the Peabody Group, filed documentation with the US Securities and Exchange Commission this Monday to raise US$100 million through an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. Peabody produced 179.2 Mt of coal in the year to March 31, 2000, making the company the largest coal producer in the US and one of the largest in the world. The IPO is to be managed by Lehman Brothers, the New York-based investment bank which financed the acquisition of Peabody by P & L (for which purpose the latter was create

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