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Austrian Company Deal News and Analysis
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Pecik to Buy Hypo Group´s SEE-Affiliates?
The Austrian investor Ronny Pecik is said to be interested in acquiring the Southeast European subsidiaries of nationalized Hypo Group.
October 2, 2013
Slovenia: Telekom Austria Hesitates
The Vienna-listed Telekom Austria Group has two major growth opportunities in Slovenia. Slovenian Telekom and Telemach are for sale.
September 3, 2013
EU Approves Hypo Group´s Restructuring Plan
The re-privatization of the Austrian publicly held banking group was approved by the Commission. According to the Commission´s report, Hypo Group´s expansion strategy was highly dangerous.
September 2, 2013
Hypo Group Considers IPO
The Austrian nationalized bank takes an IPO of its Eastern subsidiaries into account.
August 31, 2013
Telekom Austria Has Still Growth Plans in Serbia
According to market rumors, the Vienna-listed telecommunication group is interested in taking over Serbia Broadband.
August 17, 2013
Uniqa: Ambitious Growth Targets
The Austrian insurance group wants to put effort into selective growth. The CESEE region still has a remarkable substantial, CEO Brandstetter explains.
August 7, 2013
Romania: Another Major Privatization Ahead
Romania´s government intends to sell the publicly held share in the telecommunication group Romtelecom.
August 6, 2013
„CESEE Will Come Back“
Andreas Brandstetter, CEO of the Austrian insurance group Uniqa, thinks that Central and Eastern Europe will recover.
August 6, 2013
Investors Refrain from Slovenia
Volume and demand from investors remain low on the Slovenian capital market.
August 5, 2013
Immofinanz Prepares for BUWOG Sale
The Austrian real estate company plans a going-public for Buwog in 2014. Above all, Immofinanz wants to complete Buwog´s German portfolio.
August 3, 2013
Hypo Group: Current Capital Injection Not Enough
Klaus Liebscher, head of the supervisory board of the nationalized Austrian problem bank, thinks that the Ministry of Finance will have to inject further money.
July 23, 2013
Hypo Group Needs Even More Money
The nationalized Austrian bank needs fresh funds of more than € 700m. For the Austrian taxpayers, the banking package becomes more and more costly.
July 21, 2013
bwin.party: Application for Block Listing in London
Application for Block Listing to the UK Listing Authority and to the London Stock Exchange
April 19, 2013
CSA: Korean Air Gets In
The South Korean airline will take over the publicly held stake in the loss-making Czech carrier.
March 16, 2013
VBAG is Forced to Continue Radical Downsizing Measures
The partly nationalized and financially stricken Austrian banking group has to implement a painful restructuring concept. At the moment, VBAG sells its properties.
March 15, 2013
CSA: Korean Air as Only Bidder
The Korean airline company aims to take over the publicly held stake in Czech Airlines (CSA). Korean Air only offers € 2.64m.
March 7, 2013
Czech Airlines May be Taken Over by Korean Air
The Korean airline company aims to take over the publicly held stake in Czech Airlines.
March 5, 2013
VBAG: Major Losses in Romania
The Romanian subsidiary of Austrian VBAG suffers from non-performing loan. Last year proved to be again a difficult one for the Romanian banking system, Raiffeisen Research states.
February 21, 2013
LOT to be Privatized in 2013
LOT Polish Airlines faces a dramatic phase of restructuring. In order to saleable, the airline company will downsize radically.
February 19, 2013
T-Mobile Continues Fight Against Orange Takeover
After the takeover of “Orange” by Hutchison Austria, the situation of telecommunication sector has changed significantly. T-Mobile´s management thinks that the takeover is unlawful.
February 19, 2013
Sberbank Threatens to Sue VBAG
Last year, VBAG has sold VBI (Volksbank International) to Russian Sberbank. Now, Sberbank is highly dissatisfied with the performance of VBI.
February 19, 2013
“Sale of Kommunalkredit Will Take Some Time”
Ewald Nowotny, governor of Austrian National Bank, believes that the sale of the nationalized Austrian banking group will take some years.
February 18, 2013
Borealis to Acquire Outstanding Shares of TOTAL Affiliate GPN SA
Borealis, an Austrian provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, has made a firm offer to TOTAL to purchase all outstanding shares of GPN SA, France’s largest nitrogen fertilizer manufacturer.
February 7, 2013
OMV Sells Its Marketing Subsidiary in Croatia
With this transaction OMV Refining and Marketing has completed the next step in implementing the defined divestment program.
February 1, 2013
Bank Austria Centralizes Operations in Baltic Countries
The Austrian subsidiary of Italian UniCredit has shifted the units in Lithuania and Estonia to Latvia.
January 29, 2013
Austrian Federal Competition Authority Approves Verbund´s Deal in Turkey
The Austrian energy group Verbund sells its stake in the Turkish joint venture Enerjisa to German E.ON. In return, Verbund gets E.ON´s hydro power plans in Bavaria.
January 11, 2013
Generali to Expand into CESEE Region
The Italian insurance group wants to strengthen its market presence in central, east and southeast Europe. The minority stake in the Czech insurer PPF will be acquired.
January 8, 2013
Orange: Hundreds of Jobs Endangered
After the takeover of the Austrian telecommunication operator Orange by Hutchison, the management wants to take advantage of the synergies.
January 8, 2013 · Updated: January 8, 2013; 12:00
T-Mobile Fights Against Orange-Takeover
The second-biggest telecommunication operator in Austria wants to prevent the takeover of Orange by Hutchison.
January 2, 2013
New Hope for Nabucco
The gas pipeline project is said to get a new major shareholder. In case of the entry of the Shah Deniz II consortium, Nabucco´s utilization would be secured.
December 22, 2012
Hutchison Takes Over Orange
The Austrian subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based telecommunication group Hutchison Whampoa is now officially entitled to acquire its competitor Orange.
December 22, 2012
Hypo Group: Supervisory Board Wants Bad Bank
Johannes Ditz, chairman of Hypo Group´s supervisory board thinks that the bank will need even more time to scale-down its risky assets.
December 22, 2012
Romanian Post to be Privatized
In total, 51% of the company will be sold. The Romanian state will keep a 24% stake in Post.
December 18, 2012
Uniqa Sells Hotel Investments
The Uniqa Group is selling its hotel investments from the Austria Hotels International Group to an investor group headed by Oliver W. Braun (also including Günter Kerbler, Johann Kowar and others).
December 18, 2012
Austrian Competition Authority May Prevent Orange-Takeover
This week, the EU-Commission has approved the acquisition of the third-biggest telecommunication company by Hutchison Austria. Austria´s BWB (Federal Competition Authority) is seen as risk factor.
December 15, 2012
Austria: BWB Approves New Shareholder at Bawag
The U.S. investment fund Golden Tree Asset Management becomes the second core shareholder of the Austrian bank.
December 14, 2012
Orange Takeover Finally Approved
After more than ten months, the EU Commission approved the takeover of the third-largest Austrian telecommunication operator by the competitor Hutchison Austria.
December 12, 2012
Zavarovalnica Maribor Remains Slovenian
The Slovenian insurance company was taken over by the Sava Re. NKBM has to increase its equity quota.
December 11, 2012
Bank Austria: Major Losses in Kazakhstan
In 2007, Bank Austria took over the Kazakh ATF Bank. In total, the banking group is threatened to record losses of up to € 1.8bn. Now, Bank Austria is said to leave Kazakhstan.
December 11, 2012
Orange-Takeover: Commission to Announce Decision Next Week
EU Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the final decision will be published next week. The deal is likely to be approved.
December 8, 2012
RBI Sells Stake in RHI
The Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International sells the 7.3% interest in the Austrian refractory company.
December 7, 2012
Voestalpine Acquires Canadian Sturdell Industries
The Vienna-listed voestalpine Group continues to further expand its market position in North America by undertaking an acquisition in its special steel segment.
December 7, 2012
Hypo Group: Deadline Expires
Today, the first deadline for the sale of Hypo Group´s subsidiaries in Southeast-Europe expires.
December 7, 2012
Legal Merger of Raiffeisen Bank Polska and Polbank EFG Approved
Approval is starting point for unification of market approach and operational merger process. Cost synergies to be achieved by optimization of the branch network and the staff number, among other measures.
December 5, 2012
Verbund Focuses on Hydro Power
After the deal with German E.ON, the biggest Austrian energy company has a new core market and a new core product.
December 4, 2012
Verbund Sells Enerjisa to E.ON
Verbund, Austria’s leading utility, and E.ON, one of the world’s largest energy providers, have reached an agreement on an asset swap.
December 3, 2012
RHI: USA and India as Growth Markets
CEO Franz Struzl considers expanding into India, Russia and the U.S. Investments will reach about € 50m.
December 1, 2012
Slovenia: Austrian Grawe Will not Take Over ZM
The second-biggest Slovenian bank NKBM (Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor) sells its interest in the insurance group Zavarovalnica Maribor (ZM). Sava Re negotiates with NKBM already.
November 30, 2012
Hypo Group Sold AluFlexPack to MTC
After months of negotiations, the Austrian nationalized bank sold the Croatian aluminum company to the Switzerland-based Montana Tech Components.
November 30, 2012
OMV Sells Its Marketing Subsidiary in Bosnia-Herzegovina
With this move, OMV Refining & Marketing has completed the next step in implementing the defined divestment program that contributes to reduce the weighting of the Refining and Marketing division in the overall OMV portfolio.
November 30, 2012
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