Fortum to launch 8 billion euro bid for Uniper
Financial Times
Finnish power utility Fortum will launch an 8 billion takeover offer for German energy company E.ON’s fossil spin-off Uniper after Fortum has secured the agreement of its biggest shareholder and former parent company, writes Richard Milne in an article for the Financial Times. “Uniper’s management is firmly against the takeover”, writes Milne. E.ON has welcomed the offer in a press release.
Read the article (behind paywall) in English here, and find E.ON press release in English here.
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