Saxony state sells SachsenLB to LBBW
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DRESDEN, Germany  - The government of the eastern German state of Saxony on Sunday decided to sell its stricken lender SachsenLB to Stuttgart-based LBBW  for what sources said was 300 million euros in a move that speed further bank consolidation.
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BERLIN Telekom Austria said Monday that it had agreed to buy Bulgaria&#39;s No.1 mobile phone operator, entering one of Eastern Europe&#39;s most promising wireless markets.
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WestLB, the German public sector banking giant, is considering making an offer to buy its regional public sector bank, Landesbank Berlin.
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FRANKFURT/LONDON  - Germany sold 6.3 percent in  phone operator Deutsche Telekom on Monday, raising up to 4.4  billion euros ($5.5 billion) as part of a privatization drive  to help it tackle a burgeoning budget deficit.
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Telekom Austria AG, the country&#39;s biggest phone operator, won the right to buy Bulgaria&#39;s largest mobile phone company, MobilTel EAD, for 1.6 billion euros ($2.1 billion), an acquisition that would add 3 million subscribers.
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Germany's fifth-largest bank, WestLB, said Sunday it is selling its majority stake in steel distributor Kloeckner &amp; Co. AG to a U.S. investment firm as part of efforts to unload noncore assets.
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Lone Star Funds, which tried and failed to acquire Bankgesellchaft Berlin AG last year, agreed to buy 3.6 billion euros ($4.4 billion) in mostly defaulted German loans, the biggest such purchase in the country.
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German bank WestLB is to sell its stake in  Europe's largest travel group TUI, owners of Thomson and Lunn Poly.
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BRUSSELS/SAO PAULO  - Shareholders gave their  blessing on Friday for Belgium's Interbrew INTB.BR to buy  Brazil's AmBev AMBV4.SA ABV.N in a deal valued at about 8  billion euros ($9.7 billion) that will create the world's  largest brewer.
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MUNICH, Germany : German electronics giant Siemens said that its Siemens Business Services unit had signed a 2.7-billion-euro (3.3-billion-dollar) contract to supply technology services to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Publisher Pearson announced the sale Wednesday of its 50-percent stake in joint venture Financial Times Deutschland to business partner Gruner + Jahr, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann.
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BERLIN - German-based chemical maker BASF AG said Monday it is buying a Chinese company that makes motorcycle emissions-control catalysts.  The value of the deal for Guilin Reecat Catalyst Co. Ltd. of China was not disclosed.
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I.BM announced late yesterday the sale of its personal computer business to Lenovo, China&#39;s largest personal computer maker, a deal that reflects the industrial and economic ambitions of not only the two companies but also their two nations.
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Telekom Austria yesterday said it had agreed to buy MobilTel, Bulgaria&#39;s leading mobile telephone operator, in a step widely seen as preparing the way for a big share placement in the Austrian group.
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The German government on Monday sold shares worth â¬1.6 billion, or $2.14 billion, in Deutsche Telekom to the state-owned development bank KfW Group as the finance minister, Hans Eichel, strove to rein in the budget deficit.
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LONDON, December 27  - Europeâs leading bank Deutsche Bank AG (DBK.ETR) has decided to sell its 109 properties across Germany to Eurocastle Investment Ltd for â¬300 million.
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JM Smucker Co., the largest US maker of jellies and jams, sold its operations in Brazil to closely held Cargill Inc. The sale of Smucker do Brasil Ltda.