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German media giant Axel Springer splits up media, classifieds units

"Axel Springer" can be read on a sign in front of the E Axel Springer high-rise. Kay Nietfeld/dpa German media giant Axel Springer is splitting up its activities, separating the media division and its ...
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Insight - Failed FT bid shows Axel Springer caught between tradition and ambition

FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Axel Springer's (SPRGn.DE) failure to clinch a deal to buy the Financial Times lengthens a line of setbacks in a decade-old quest by Germany's biggest news publisher to ...
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Axel Springer Heiress Taps Successor, Gives Him Shares

The owner of the German publishing house Axel Springer on Thursday tapped the media giant's current chief executive as her "successor", handing him 19 percent of the company as a "gift", the media ...
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KKR in talks to take Germany's Axel Springer private

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Axel Springer's share price jumped more than 20% on Thursday after the German publisher said its main owners were in talks with U.S. investor KKR to take the $5.4 billion company ...