Tag: Mergers & Acquisitions M&A
Kaufhof owner Benko gets fresh money from investors
Rene Benko The image of the real estate prodigy has recently cracked. (Photo: Getty Images for Oberpollinger/ ) Frankfurt, Dusseldorf According to company circles, the Signa Group of real estate…
Audi faces a radical restart in China
Audi appearance at a car show in Wuhan The VW subsidiary has so far hardly been able to deliver what Chinese customers want. (Photo: Getty Images; Per-Anders Pettersson) Munich, Berlin,…
Kaufhof owner Benko gets fresh money from investors
Frankfurt, Dusseldorf According to company circles, the Signa Group of real estate investor René Benko, which is behind the Galeria department store group, has secured fresh equity. The existing investors…
Vitesco replaces Software AG in the MDax – BVB moves up
Software Inc The tech company is deleted from the MDax. (Photo: IMAGO/Zoonar) After the US financial investor Silver Lake secured a good 84 percent of the shares in Software AG,…
Vitesco replaces Software AG in the MDax – BVB moves up
Software Inc The tech company is deleted from the MDax. (Photo: IMAGO/Zoonar) After the US financial investor Silver Lake secured a good 84 percent of the shares in Software AG,…
US antitrust authorities give up resistance to Microsoft-Activison deal
Washington After about a year and a half, Microsoft has reached its goal of acquiring Activision Blizzard. After two defeats in court, the US antitrust authorities withdrew their lawsuit against…
Takeovers in the logistics industry collapse drastically
Dusseldorf After the takeover hype during the corona pandemic, company acquisitions in the transport industry have collapsed drastically this year. This is the result of a study just published by…
New boss Lopez Borrego is pushing for speed in the restructuring of the group
Thyssen Krupp headquarters in Essen The group, which was merged from Krupp and Thyssen 23 years ago, is one of the concerns of the German economy. (Photo: IMAGO/photo booth) Dusseldorf,…
Goldman earnings halved as investment banking doldrums and writedowns
Goldman Sachs The money house showed a profit of 1.07 billion dollars for the months of April to June. (Photo: Reuters) new York Goldman Sachs’ quarterly profit fell sharply due…
Adnoc increases offer for Covestro
Adnoc headquarters in Abu Dhabi The oil company shows strong interest in the Dax group Covestro. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt, Dusseldorf According to financial sources, the oil company Adnoc from Abu…
Evonik before sale of superabsorbents division
Diapers keep you dry thanks to super absorbers Highly absorbent diaper chemicals, so-called superabsorbents, are manufactured by companies such as Evonik. He now wants to sell the business. (Photo: dpa)…
Czech billionaire builds trading empire
Paris Four years ago, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky took a minority stake in French supermarket giant Casino. Now he is supposed to save the heavily indebted group. Late on Monday…
Schweizer Einhorn enters the heat pump business
Apartment building by Nokera The company produces houses made of wood, among other things, for publicly subsidized housing. (Photo: Nokera) Zurich The German-Swiss housing start-up Nokera is entering the business…
Ad revenue on Twitter plummeted by 50 percent
Business at the short message service Twitter is worse than expected. Company owner Elon Musk wrote on Twitter on Saturday that cash flow remained negative due to a nearly 50…
Barclays wants to sell German private customer business
Barclays branch in London The major British bank could sell its German business. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt, Hamburg The major British bank Barclays is considering selling its private customer business in…
Fresenius hands over power to dialysis subsidiary FMC
Fresenius Medical Care On Friday, the Extraordinary General Meeting will decide on the demerger of the dialysis group from the parent Fresenius. (Photo: imago images/Alexander Pohl) Frankfurt On Friday of…
Stada expands portfolio and buys more brands from Sanofi
Stada headquarters The Hessian drug manufacturer is expanding its business with over-the-counter drugs. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt The Hessian drug manufacturer Stada is again buying several over-the-counter branded products from the…
Italian Post significantly increases stake in logistics unicorn
Sennder boss and co-founder David Nothacker Nothacker co-founded Sennder in 2015 and also initiated the joint venture with Poste Italiane. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Berlin The Italian Post is significantly expanding…
US court rejects stop on Activision acquisition
Activision Call of Duty game, Microsoft The $69 billion deal cleared an important hurdle. (Photo: AP) san francisco Microsoft has taken a step forward with its acquisition of video game…
US court rejects stop on Activision acquisition
Activision Call of Duty game, Microsoft The $69 billion deal cleared an important hurdle. (Photo: AP) san francisco Microsoft has taken a step forward with its acquisition of video game…