Germany's KATHREIN (560 million euro turnover in 1999), the world's foremost aerial manufacturer, is to take control of the German specialist in mass market electronic products GRUNDIG (1.4 bn euro turnover in 1999 with 5,850 employees) in which it currently has a 25% stake. KATHREIN intends increasing this to 74% by the end of the year. It is considering taking almost all the shares of HYPOVEREINSSBANK, whose stake would consequently fall from 37.3% to 2.03%, as well as buying the shares of...