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• THOMSON BUYS A LARGER SLICE OF CHINA'S KONKA.(Brief Article)

  - 2005-02-09

  Chinese electronics group Konka announced on February 2 that its main shareholder, Overseas Chinese Town Group, had got the go-ahead from the Chinese authorities to sell 4.82% of the company to French group Thomson SA. The acquisition adds to the 3.16% invested by Thomson at the ...

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• Offshoring trend costs jobs at electronics giant Thomson's Carmel, Ind., unit.

  - 2004-08-31

  By Ted Evanoff, The Indianapolis Star Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 31--When Arwilda Allen learned she'd be let go and her Carmel accounting job moved to the Philippines, she teared up. Then she got mad. "How can this happen in...

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• THOMSON WINS NEW GRASS VALLEY ORDERS.

  - 2003-07-11

  Thomson SA said on July 2 it signed new contracts worth "tens of millions of Euros" with media companies for its Grass Valley broadcasting equipment. It said it took orders from companies including Visions, Treibhaus Postproduction AG, Mosfilm, Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co, P-Three Oriental Post, Post...

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• France to auction stake in Thomson

  - 1997-02-20

  The French government has decided to invite bids for its pounds 1.3bn controlling interest in Thomson-CSF, the defence wing of the electronics giant Thomson SA. The decision follows the embarrassing collapse in December of an attempt to privatise the entire Thomson group. The government, which has rejected pleas...

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• NO-HEADLINE

  - 1996-12-19

  The European Commission opened an inquiry into the state aidfor Thomson SA and Thomson Multimedia, which was notified to the commission in October ahead of proposals for Thomson SA's privatisation. The measures concern a capital injection of about Ffr11bn (pounds 1.3bn) into the parent company Thomson SA and the possibly...

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• Thomson SA to be be privatised

  - 1996-12-12

  Thomson SA is to be be privatised in two parts, starting withits defence arm, Thomson-CSF, in early 1997, the French Finance Ministry announced last night. The consumer electronics arm, Thomson Multimedia, would have to be recapitalised before it could be sold. Last week, an offer from Lagardere for the whole...

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• Lagardere prepares to close Thomson buy … France to sell defense giant for about 19 cents … Thomson to be broken up

  - 1996-10-21

  Philippe Camus, Lagardere's financial group chief, tomorrow will meet with financial analysts in Paris to hash out details of its acquisition of state- owned Thomson SA. Last week the French government chose Lagardere over Alcatel Alsthom to acquire Thomson. Helping Lagardere are investment houses BANEXI, Morgan Stanley and Robert Fleming.

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• French government to retain a share of Thomson after privatization … shares to be privately placed

  - 1996-08-12

  French President Jacques Chirac wants the French government to maintain a "golden share" of Thomson SA after the state-owned company is privatized later this year. Chirac made his decision Aug. 2 after reviewing a July 22 report by Thomson president Marcel Roulet that assessed acquisition proposals by Lagardere Group and...

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• New alliances emerge from French aerospace shakeup

  - 1996-08-01

  In a world in which the private sector is gaining ground, the French defence industry is still characterised by a strong involvement of the state - a tradition that can be traced back to Colbert in the 17th century. Not only is the French ministry of defence the leading customer...

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