BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : FEBRUARY 19, 2001 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Going to Market Structure of the Bertelsmann-RTL-Groupe Bruxelles Lambert deal STEP 1 Bertelsmann gets GBL's 30% stake in $13 billion RTL group, boosting its own stake to 67%. STEP 2 GBL gets 25% of Bertelsmann. STEP 3 In three years, GBL can sell its Bertelsmann stake on the stock market. It will be the first time in its 166-year history that $15 billion Bertelsmann has publicly traded stock. Data: Bertelsmann _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS Middelhoff: ``We're in the Driver's Seat'' TABLE: Going to Market INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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