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...The Hamburg grouping – known as the Albert Ballin consortium – currently controls 78 per cent of Hapag-Lloyd’s shares, while Tui, the travel company, controls the remainder....
...The 33.3 per cent stake being sold will be offered first, as required under the Hapag-Lloyd shareholder agreement, to the Hamburg-based Albert Ballin consortium that controls the 61.6 per cent of the company...
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...If these options fail, TUI has an option to sell its remaining stake to Albert Ballin consortium in January 2012....
...His father Robert, now a horsebreeder and the chairman of Cheltenham Racecourse, liked to ride himself, but also backed a dead cert when he sold Alliance Medical in 2007, for £600m....
...As well as approving the IPO plans, the board meeting on Thursday agreed to sell an 11.33 per cent stake in Hapag-Lloyd to the Albert Ballin consortium – a group including Hamburg’s state government and...
...When it initially announced plans for a public listing in March, Tui announced it would sell 11.33 per cent of Hapag-Lloyd at the end of May to the Albert Ballin consortium of Hamburg-based investors and...
...Tui, the German tourism company, and the Albert Ballin consortium, said they had appointed Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Greenhill to advise them on the potential public listing of the line, Germany’s...
...Hapag-Lloyd ran into problems almost immediately Tui sold control of the company to the Hamburg-based Albert Ballin consortium in March in a deal valuing the company at €4.4bn....
...Tui, which had owned Hapag-Lloyd outright, sold 57 per cent in March to the Albert Ballin consortium. The state government is the consortium’s largest shareholder....
...The largest shareholder in the Albert Ballin consortium is the state of Hamburg....
...HSH Nordbank, a member of the Albert Ballin consortium, provided a €15m loan....
...The failure of most of the Albert Ballin consortium to take part in the deal underlines the divisions that have opened up since the group took its stake in the container line in March....
...The Hamburg group – known as the Albert Ballin consortium, after a 19th century shipowner – emerged as winners after Neptune Orient Lines pulled out last October because of anxiety over the market outlook...
...Neither Hapag-Lloyd nor the Albert Ballin consortium wished to comment....
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