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The Tchibo heritage and Puma major shareholder Günter heart is looking for new investment opportunities. According to a report he now has an offer for Germanischer Lloyd. The company is a kind of TÜV for ships - and several hotly courted investors.
Hamburg - The billionaire and Puma
- Co-owner will Günter heart in a big way in the ship's classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) entry. "It was a binding bid," said Hinrich steel from the Hamburg asset management company Mayfair, the heart of its investment companies. According steel heart is ready, up to 100 percent of the GL to acquire.
A minimum level of participation there is not, the offer is coming to Friday week temporary, such as steel said. According to Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) is offering the heart of the 500 million euro, the French rival Bureau Veritas in a hostile takeover bid, according to reports.
The GL is a kind of TÜV for ships: The engineers of the ship's classification society, among other things, whether the construction of ships all the rules and requirements are met.
heart will, according to steel "as a merchant from Hamburg" GL committed to the long-term jobs. The offer was steel, according to the GL today sent shareholders. The amount of steel said nothing.
heart was formerly co-owner of the trade group Tchibo. He and his sister Daniela had in 2003 after years of clashes its shares in Tchibo to the rest of cardiovascular family and were sold with four billion euros abgefunden. Since heart looking for investment opportunities. In 2005, Günter and Daniela Herz, with more than 25 percent at sporting goods manufacturer Puma entered.
The GL-board begrßt the report that "obviously" the supply of heart. Tomorrow the Board wants its shareholders the offer cardiovascular explain, it noted. Board and staff to defend vehemently opposed the offer by the French. For GL there are other interested parties, including the German service company Dekra, the technical monitoring Clubs (TUV) and the Norwegian classification society Det Norske Veritas.
ExceptBureau Veritas and now has heart nieman a concrete offer. However, the TÜV SÜD is just about a bid, reported the FTD. "We will submit a binding offer," the paper quoted the TÜV-South CEO Peter Hupfer. "We have this bid at the invitation of Germanischer Lloyd prepared." For the price is not Hupfer said. kaz / AP / AFP / dpa-AFX