Gütersloh (ots) - The EU Commission in Brussels has approved Bertelsmann AG's acquisition of a controlling interest in Europe's leading television and radio conglomerate, the RTL Group. Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO Thomas Middelhoff today welcomed this as a significant landmark in enhancing growth and success ...
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London/Gütersloh (ots) - After intensive exploratory talks, Britain's EMI Group plc and Bertelsmann AG have decided not to continue the negotiations about merging their music businesses. The companies have mutually concluded that the regulatory hurdles Brussels and Washington would most likely impose on an EMI/Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) merger would require a complicated, lengthy investigation and approval procedure. Also, preliminary talks indicated that there would ...
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Ludwigshafen (ots) - * First-quarter growth in 2001 still high * Strongest growth in Oil & Gas * Significant increase in earnings expected in the second quarter In the first quarter of 2001, BASF continued on its course for growth. Compared with the same period of the previous year, sales increased by almost 10 percent to approximately ¤9.3 billion. ...
