News Digest Item
29 Sep 2016

“Some municipal shareholders in Germany's RWE won't take part in innogy listing”

Reuters

Several municipal shareholders of utility RWE – among them Dortmund and Essen – will not invest in the company’s renewable subsidiary innogy at the time of its initial public offering (IPO), according to news agency Reuters. “As a provider of jobs in the region, local municipalities, which hold about 24 percent of [RWE], have an interest in its survival, making a decision to sell RWE shares to buy innogy stock difficult,” writes Reuters. The municipalities did not rule out investing later on.

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Also read the 淨 factsheet RWE’s plans for new renewable subsidiary for background.

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