Investing in lifestyle products
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Morgan Grenfell Private Equity's theme is to invest in companies with a well-known 'lifestyle' brand. The leveraged buyout of Italy's Piaggio, which invented the scooter and developed the Vesta brand, is an example of its strategy.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 2000
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Shanghai surprises for ING over CCF
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Following HSBC's surprise acquisition of investment bank Credit Commercial de France (CCF), it has emerged that ING Groep NV's acquisition of CCF was always in doubt because of their fundamental incompatibility.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 2000
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Dexia and Artesia merge to create financial giant
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The private bank Artesia BC is to be acquired by the Franco-Belgian group Dexia for 3.3 billion euros. The move will make Dexia the second largest bank in Belgium and will ensure it becomes a global force.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 2001
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