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According to the official takeover bid by the French luxury group PPR to the Puma shareholders, the poker at the right price go. Puma shareholders' representatives times already played the first card: they see no reason for a full takeover.
Nuremberg - Man in favour of participation, but wondered why PPR seek the full takeover, said Gerhard hunters of the protection community of investors (SdK) at today's meeting of the sporting goods company in Nuremberg. In addition, the French Group's offer to the remaining shareholders of 330 euros per share nachbessern.
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shareholders of Puma AG: "Why should the shareholders in the offer received?" Hunter pointed to the price of Puma shares in the course of the trading day at more than 350 euros. "Why should the shareholders in the offer received?" He asked. On the other hand, defended Puma chief Jochen Zeitz the offer as fair and advertised for adoption.
Puma is behind Nike and Adidas the world's number three in the sporting goods market. On the stock market after the offer by PPR immediately speculated that U.S. rival Nike a bidding battle could start, especially since Adidas with the purchase of Reebok the distance to a number had shrunk significantly. Zeitz on Wednesday that neither a counter-offer by Nike a higher offer from PPR wanted to exclude, spurred the stock again. The paper climbed by up to 2.3 percent to 351.70 euros. It therefore seems unlikely now that many shareholders their Puma shares for the requisite 330 Euro PPR to sell. Before the shareholders took Zeitz today, however sceptical. He stressed that the PPR statements were clearly in the direction that the offer can not be further increased.
shareholders, but also representatives of institutional investors expressed disappointed. The offer was "an extremely good deal for PPR, but not a good deal for shareholders", it noted. The French vergr

The German energy companies have responded to a press report that plans internally to protect their networks forged billion. With the establishment of a European network society should be one of the EU Commission planned dismantling of the groups can be prevented.
Munich - According to information of the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung", several groups in Brussels, which lines for electricity and gas companies from neighbouring countries to pool. An independent society, the networks of Germany, France and the Benelux countries manage. This will be the EU Commission pre-empt, which had threatened several times, for competitive reasons a separation of networks and suppliers to the EU directive on machhen. "If we create competition, cut to the proposal from the Commission footing," the paper quoted a manager.
A spokesman for EU Competition Commissioner Nellie Kroes said, however, Brussels insist on the dismantling of the groups. Kroes believe that prices can only reduce, if the corporations would lose the networks. The energy industry do, however, with their bid for other politicians such as Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs heard, writes the paper. Piebalgs energy managers had the proposal a few weeks ago made. The governments of Germany and France were sceptical about the dismantling and could be open to an alternative model.
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The auto industry wants to be out of their deep-free image: former Mercedes chief Juergen Hubbert will be the new President of the Association of Automotive Industry (VDA). Bernd Gottschalk had predecessors because of its sluggish behavior in the climate debate.
Frankfurt am Main - Hubbert, according to a report by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "as the temporary President of the association. It would be as an interim president prepared to powerful car association, if no other candidate had a majority, writes the newspaper, referring to VDA circles.
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ex-Mercedes boss Hubbert: As Interim President ready On next Monday, according to "FAZ" the three vice-presidents and 14 board members to a special meeting in Berlin taken to the new VDA candidates. The board includes the manager of large car companies and suppliers.
Almost two weeks had VDA President Bernd Gottschalk surprisingly resigned his office. Trigger for the resignation was apparently the increasing pressure from its own ranks to him to z

Peter Hartz was in the VW affair with a suspended sentence of it. For ex-VW works council chief Klaus Volkert it looks worse: He threatens to Newspaper information imprisonment. Unlike Hartz Volkert has even benefited from payments.
Hamburg - The ex-works council head of the VW group is to Clause 266 of the Penal Code for incitement to embezzlement accused. The verlautet from judicial circles. This threatens the former labour leader even a prison sentence.
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Ex-VW works council chief Volkert: If nearly two million have collects Volkert will be from 1994 to 2005 of ex-VW-working director Peter Hartz in addition to his salary so-called "special bonus payments", without being at VW had been disclosed. Also Volkerts lover should Hartz large sums of money without a quid pro quo zugeschanzt been. After conviction of the investigators, Volkert is guilty of incitement because it contains more money for themselves and a consultant contract for his girlfriend had called.
addition, it requires that they travel with him at the Group eingeflogen costs from Brazil. Under Clause 26 of the Penal Code is the instigator "like a perpetrator punished."
ex-person Executive Peter Hartz has already been to two years imprisonment on probation. Hartz was in the sentencing zugutegehalten but that he personally from the payments to the works and the benefits for his mistress had not benefited. Volkert, however, Sheehan total of nearly two million euro bonus payments. That would be a possible condemnation of offences act.
The VW affair desire to travel and Bordellbesuche costs at the Group was in June 2005 came into roles. As key figures in addition to Volkert and Hartz, the former VW personnel manager Klaus-Joachim Gebauer and former Skoda chief Helmuth Schuster staff. Gebauer and Schuster to bribe demands and with the help of a worldwide network of camouflage companies money on their own accounts have diverted that actually would have allowed VW. Later, also known pleasure and parties, some of the blank cheques at VW were. Among other things, should engage in works councils at the company line are kept, they say. ASE

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New scandal at Siemens: The Group will be an ex-worker with a lump-sum settlement to have paid millions of dollars - although the man against serious allegations of bribery. Even against the former supervisory board chief Baumann is now.
Darmstadt / Munich - The corruption trial in the Siemens power plant division, according to new allegations. Siemens

From bankruptcy to success car model: It was in the U.S., the land of cars with Riesenspritverbrauch developed the Smart small cars for sale hit. Although the car until the beginning of 2008 on the local market - but are already 20,000 orders.
Stuttgart - The reservation is a deposit of 99 U.S. dollars, but no means binding order, DaimlerChrysler announced today. The car will be in the first quarter of 2008 in the United States on the market.
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Smart Fortwo: the first black Smart milliardenhohen losses to be the first time this year the black writing. In the past three years, the series losses of almost 3.9 billion euro. Thus, the losses higher than previously thought.
DaimlerChrysler presented two Smart models and focuses only on the two. The organization was streamlined and fully integrated into the Mercedes group. The new Smart Fortwo will be sold since April. According to DaimlerChrysler were in May with 12,200 cars 71 percent more than the same month last year delivered. KAZ / dpa-AFX

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By Hasnain Kazim Just until the European Union of Turkey promised to open accession talks in part because Ankara receives support from a prestigious Foundation: The World Economic Forum has published a report that a plea for Europe deepened relations with Ankara.
Hamburg - At the end it is all a question of perspective. There are good reasons that Turkey as soon as possible member of the European Union, the British share this opinion in Europe attaches particular importance. It can be just as many arguments against membership, France and Austria prove that always happy. And the German government does not know quite what they think of an EU membership for Turkey will keep up: SPD and the Union to seek a common line - just like the look, is not yet clear.
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to guard the Turkish flag (on the 83rd anniversary of the Turkish Republic): evidence of how Europe could benefit the country The World Economic Forum (WEF) has now the proponents of closer cooperation with Turkey Protect important aid. The WEF is a foundation founded in 1971 with headquarters in Geneva and known by their mostly in the Swiss Davos with pop and movie stars celebrated annual meetings. Ten days before the start of the World Economic Forum in Istanbul today, the Foundation published a 32-page study, which explains how Europe by Turkey can benefit.
And sincelooks after its own figures "independent international organisation which is committed to the state of the world," significant advantages. "Turkey is seen by many as a risk for Europe perceived. Maybe they do exactly the opposite, a potential opportunity, to minimize certain risks," said Thierry Malleret, WEF. In particular, Europe in three areas of Turkey to benefit in the energy supply, in economic terms and in the prevention of wars and the fight against terrorism.
In the field of energy could Turkey a kind of "artery" for European energy supplies - to a transit country for Iraqi oil, once the situation there had stabilized again. The role of Turkish migrants - mainly to Germany moves - evaluate the WEF authors at the point of demographic change positive: EU countries with populations could

Indian steel magnate take pleasure in the European market: Following the takeover of Arcelor by the magnate Lakshmi Mittal now urges the steel giant Tata to Europe. According to press reports he wants to 7.2 billion euros for a Dutch-British competitors pay.
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First met the temporary workers, now EADS headquarters in Munich and Paris off: The group will then, in response to the A380 crisis, every tenth place deleted. Even the managers do not come without them.
NEW YORK - The daughter because of the Airbus crisis steckende in the European aerospace group EADS will in its two corporate headquarters about 60 posts deleted. Overall, in Munich and in Paris the number of employees by approximately 660 to ten percent fall, said a spokesman today and confirmed a report by the Financial Times Deutschland. They spread the cuts evenly between the two locations, added the spokesman. Whether for the job cuts were necessary compulsory redundancies, is not yet decided. "It will certainly use the natural attrition", it noted.
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A380 test flight: The trouble Riesenjet lead to consequences in the EADS headquarters The group stressed that in order to relieve the financial crisis by Airbus, the other EADS divisions should contribute. "The problem A380 is not just a problem of Airbus, EADS," said the spokesman.
Besides the job cuts at the two centres would also the salaries of top management frozen. "There are at least for the next year, a zero-round," he said. Affected were "several hundred Manager.
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The U.S. government, the American financial industry before a possible hacker attack by al-Qaida warned. The terrorist organization has threatened, the databases for online stock trading and Internet sites of banks to attack and destroy.
Washington - The U.S. Homeland Security Department confirmed that a warning to the financial industry was released. It says the group could strike as early as today. The warning applies to the whole of December. However, later indicated that there was no reason to believe that the threat of extremist group was credible.
familiar with the warning person said, al-Qaida probably wanted the databases for the U.S. online stock trading and Internet sites of banks in the U.S. to attack and destroy. The cyber-attack as revenge should the terrorist organization against the United States for the detention of suspects in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. Behind the threat is the warning that a group which itself Anhiar al-dollar sets, which means "collapse of the dollar".
the financial world remained covered by the warning. At the markets, there was basically no response. Experts said that it was easier said than done, in the databases of financial institutions penetrate. They expressed strong doubts that al-Qaeda actually relevant Internet sites could cause harm. as / Reuters