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Vivendi Soon to Break up...?

Started by TheReturnofDMD, May 25, 2006, 12:54:06 PM

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TheReturnofDMD

I copied this from Yahoo! news after I did a search for VU Games

BID TO BREAK UP VIVENDI GAINS MOMENTUM
5/24/2006

Entrepreneur receives new EURO 19 billion investment

Vivendi shareholder Alexandar Vik has received backing for his bid to break the company up in the form of a EURO 19 billion investment from the Bank of America and Deutsche Bank.

Vik's investment company, Sebastian Holdings, first made a breakup offer last week - offering up to EURO 33.5 per share and valuing the company at EURO 40 billion. Vivendi rejected the deal, and continues to insist that there are no plans to break up the company.

Vik owns a stake of almost 5 per cent in Vivendi, which is the parent company of the Universal Music Group, the Canal Group, Maroc Telecom, SFR and Vivendi Games. The company recently posted first quarter earnings of EURO 23 million - an increase of 109 per cent over the same period last year - and raised its forecast for the rest of 2006.


dark-daventry

Wow, A VG break up...  :o I didn't see that coming! I wonder what would happen to Sierra!
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Deloria

Now that is interesting. My guess is that a small company would buy it for very little...Mabye even POS.
 
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Rosella

Woah!

Let's all try to buy Sierra! XD
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Yonkey

Anyone have 40 billion Euros to spare? XD
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Deloria

Sorry :P I'm on dire straits (well, not exactly, but I still don't have 40 billion euros!)
 
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icarus

what if you divide the 40 billion by all the members/fans?
Than it would be less expensive...
*Hides his secret bank account whit approximately 100 billion euro on it.

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Rosella

Quote from: Deloria on May 26, 2006, 02:34:39 AM
Sorry :P I'm on dire straits (well, not exactly, but I still don't have 40 billion euros!)


Hey! That's a band!

Er, anyways, I don't happen to have any EURO to spare. ;P
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Deloria

I do. But not that many, and 40 000 000 000 : 950=42105263.2 Euros per person. :P
 
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Yonkey

#9
Anyone have 42 million Euros to spare? ;P


EDIT: Sorry, missed a decimal place. XD
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dark-daventry

I don't have euros in the first place! I have maybe something thousand in the bank, but it's not euro! I live by US currency! But this should definetely go in another thread. We're not talking about euro here, we're talking about the supposed VG breakup, which would also include disccusion of Sierra's future, I believe...
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Deloria

Whihc could be POS's future if everyone contributed 4,2 million euros, so what do you say? :P
 
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Quote from: Deloria on May 27, 2006, 02:31:12 PM
Whihc could be POS's future if everyone contributed 4,2 million euros, so what do you say? :P

It's actually 42 million. :P  *wonders if that's just a coincidence* XD
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dark-daventry

... Well, if Yonkey's doing it, why not me? Is there anyone here who has US Currency? I'm so alone!
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Rosella

All of the people in the US have US currency. ;P

Well, at least I think so. XD
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dark-daventry

It makes sense, doesn't it? You can't go into Baskin Robins and pay for Ice Cream using Euros, can you?
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Yonkey

#17
You can always convert your currency to Euros.  Still though, I doubt anyone here has $51 billion or even $53.6 million USD to spare. ;P
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icarus

Maybe we all should write a petition to Bil Gates. For using windows we want him to buy sierra  :suffer:
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Deloria

XD

But then all the Sierra games could only run on windows :P

We could petition the guy who invented IKEA or the Tetra Pack family :P. *wonders if she knows any people that wealthy* Nope :P
 
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