German retail group denies profit warning rumours
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German retail group Arcandor, formerly known as KarstadtQuelle, said Tuesday that it expected to be able to meet its earnings targets this year, denying market rumours of an imminent profit warning.
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DUSSELDORF - Struggling German retail concern KarstadtQuelle asked shareholders Monday for a EUR 500 million capitalisation increase, at the same time cautioning that it may only just barely turn a profit again in 2005.
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The women's fashion retailer warns of lower earnings and sales.
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Business & money: Â· Airport group denies link to last year's disruption Â· Talk of 2,000 job cuts played down.
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The regional state authorities of Lower Saxony has denied a newspaper report that said they were seeking support from other shareholders in Volkswagen in the escalating battle for control of the German auto giant with luxury sports car maker Porsche.
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E.ON, Germany's biggest power supplier, has firmly rejected charges by the EU Commission that it may have interfered in an anti-trust probe conducted by the EU competition authorities six months ago.
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Siemens  Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld denied any knowledge that the German engineering conglomerate was paying bribes in exchange for contracts, German magazine Focus reported on Saturday.
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Germany's economics minister warned on Saturday against slighting his country in the upcoming restructuring of Airbus, a day after a newspaper report on possible factory closings.
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Germany's national railway on Wednesday backed off a target of selling shares on the stock market by mid-2006, saying that it "does not appear realistic."
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DaimlerChrysler AG  will not auction off loss-making U.S. division Chrysler and could decide to keep the business at the end of a strategic review, Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche told a German paper.
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Germany does not expect to take a direct  stake in aerospace group EADS  via state bank KfW or  other federal or state institutions, a senior government  official told Reuters on Thursday.
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The head of Smart cars has denied speculation that parent company DaimlerChrysler may sell or even close the loss-making subsidiary.
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German business software vendor SAP AG issued a warning to customers not to provide confidential information on the phone to people claiming to be company support staff.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Linde (DE:648300) is not discussing a 8.6 billion pound merger of its industrial gas operations with the UK&#39;s BOC Group (BOX) (UK:BOC) , Germany&#39;s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported.
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Swiss watchmaker Swatch, official timekeeper to the Athens Olympics, denies allegations of tax and customs duty evasion.
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The Glazer family have strongly denied a report fom the Manchester United Supporters Trust that the club is sitting on a &quot;time bomb&quot; of debt.
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Danish brewer Carlsberg on Wednesday denied a claim by takeover target Scottish and Newcastle that it has breached an agreement of their Russian joint venture.