MILAN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - An offer by the new owners of Seat Pagine Gialle to buy out minority investors in the Italian directories company mustered close to zero interest, as expected, Italy's stock market said on Friday.
The compulsory offer by a group of private equity firms -- which recently bought 62 percent of Seat from Telecom Italia for 3 billion euros -- attracted just 0.07 percent of the shares targeted, the bourse said after the offer closed.
The private equity firms were required to bid for the Seat shares they did not already own under Italian takeover law.
The bid was always seen as unlikely to attract interest as the offer of 0.598 euros per share -- the same as paid by the private equity firms to Telecom Italia -- has been consistently below Seat's stock market price.
Seat shares on Friday closed at 0.80 euros.