ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) publishing

The Italian yellow pages publisher SEAT PAGINE GIALLE acquired two companies for a total amount of more than EUR 1.1 billion. This concerns the French company CONSODATA (information marketing centred on consumer behaviour, turnover of EUR 36.3 million), whose value is estimated at EUR 633 million, and the second largest British yellow pages publisher TDL INFOMEDIA LTD (turnover of EUR 152 million in 1999), valued at EUR 501 million. These acquisitions will be carried out through an issue of...