Ludwigshafen, Germany (ots) - * Prepared for a difficult year 2002 * Sales and earnings decline due to a weak economy in the third quarter BASF is proving robust in an unprecedented year and has ended every quarter in the black. BASF's year-end earnings will also be clearly positive. In the first nine months of 2001, BASF's sales from ongoing business amounted to more than EUR 24 billion. ...
Berlin (ots) - Revenues increase by 21 percent to 20bn EUR / Earnings before interest, taxes and amortization rise by 79 percent to over three billion EUR / Annual net income up by 44 percent to 968 million EUR / Transition at Bertelsmann: half of current corporate value attributable to initiatives and decisions implemented after 1995 / RTL Group biggest business with highest profits / Turnaround in the club ...
Ludwigshafen (ots) - * All segments post positive earnings * Product prices and margins under pressure * Higher earnings in Oil & Gas * Earnings in 2001 likely to be lower than in 2000 * Share buy-back program to be accelerated BASF has continued to weather difficult economic conditions. All of BASF's segments posted positive earnings before special items in the second quarter of 2001. The ...
Ludwigshafen (ots) - - All segments post positive earnings - Product prices and margins under pressure - Higher earnings in Oil & Gas - Earnings in 2001 likely to be lower than in 2000 BASF has continued to weather difficult economic conditions. All of BASF's segments posted positive earnings before special items in the second quarter of 2001. The Oil & Gas segment was particularly ...
Ludwigshafen/London (ots) - We shall be publishing the interim report on the first half of 2001 on the occasion of the half year press conference on August 7, 2001, in London. You will be receiving it at 7:30 a.m. (CEST). You can also read further information in the Internet at the following addresses (according to the transmission embargo): - Information in German: www.basf.de/pk - Information in English: www.basf.de/pcon - Interim report second quarter ...
Gütersloh (ots) - The EU Commission in Brussels has approved Bertelsmann AG's acquisition of a controlling interest in Europe's leading television and radio conglomerate, the RTL Group. Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO Thomas Middelhoff today welcomed this as a significant landmark in enhancing growth and success ...
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London/Gütersloh (ots) - After intensive exploratory talks, Britain's EMI Group plc and Bertelsmann AG have decided not to continue the negotiations about merging their music businesses. The companies have mutually concluded that the regulatory hurdles Brussels and Washington would most likely impose on an EMI/Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) merger would require a complicated, lengthy investigation and approval procedure. Also, preliminary talks indicated that there would ...
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Ludwigshafen (ots) - * First-quarter growth in 2001 still high * Strongest growth in Oil & Gas * Significant increase in earnings expected in the second quarter In the first quarter of 2001, BASF continued on its course for growth. Compared with the same period of the previous year, sales increased by almost 10 percent to approximately ¤9.3 billion. ...
