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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7896

5 February 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 48 / 50
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) audio-visual

The German group BERTELMSANN will take control with 67% of the European leader in television and radio RTL GROUP by buying the 30% belonging to GBL - GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERT. The latter will take, in exchange, a 25.1% stake in BERTELSMANN AG. This exchange of stakes will be carried out through a share swap. After the transaction, RTL GROUP will be 67% held by BERTELSMANN (of which 37% with WAZ), 22% by PEARSON, the remaining 11% have been floated on the London, Brussels and Luxembourg stock...

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