Italy to sell stake in Alitalia
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The Italian government is to sell a 30.1% stake in national airline Alitalia, but with a list of conditions attached.
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Italy will raise 7.64 billion euros ($9.8 billion) from the sale of 19 percent of Enel SpA, the country&#39;s biggest power company, after banks agreed to buy shares held to meet excess demand.
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Five bidders have made the final round of the auction to buy Alitalia, which is being sold by the Italian government.
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Italy's flagship air carrier Alitalia plans to cut 5,000 jobs as part of restructuring efforts aimed at averting collapse, news reports and an industry source said Monday.
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Five companies were picked by the government as finalists in the bidding for its stake in Alitalia, the ailing state-controlled carrier. The bidders include the Texas Pacific Group, the private equity firm; UniCredit, the bank; as well as financier Carlo De Benedettiâs Management and Capitali, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers; and Carlo Toto, owner of Italyâs No. 2 carrier, Air One, the finance ministry said. They have until mid-April to submit preliminary offers. Italy decided in December to sell its stake in the countryâs largest airline after the government abandoned turnaround efforts. Alitalia last reported a profit in 2002 and has forecast a loss in 2006.
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The Italian airline Air One would inject one billion dollars up front into loss-making flagship Alitalia if it wins a takeover bid, the smaller airline's chairman Carlo Toto said in an interview published Monday.
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Air France-KLM said Monday it had offered to take over Alitalia via a share swap, planning a major upgrade of the loss-making Italian flag carrier.
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The London Stock Exchange confirmed Saturday it was buying the Borsa Italiana for 1.6 billion euros (2.15 billion dollars) in shares, according to a joint statement.
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The future of Italian flagship carrier Alitalia is at stake in a meeting with unions Monday to reveal the number of planned job cuts as part of a restructuring plan aimed at averting collapse.
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Air France-KLM is not interested in buying a stake in Alitalia, which is being privatised by the Italian government, Air France-KLM chief executive Jean-Cyril Spinetta said on Thursday.
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The deadline for making binding offers to buy loss-making Italian airline Alitalia has been extended by 10 days, from July 2 to July 12, the Italian economy ministry said on Thursday.
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Alitalia  shares fell more than 3 percent on Thursday, the first day of trading since the loss-making airline's board backed Air France-KLM's  bid ahead of a final decision by the Italian government.
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Alitalia SpA, Italy&#39;s largest airline, reached a government-brokered agreement with its labor unions that will allow the carrier to cut about 3,700 jobs and gain funding for a plan to reorganize the company.
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Shares in Alitalia rose on Monday after staff agreed job and pay cuts last week to keep the beleaguered airline flying. The firm&#39;s chief executive was holding a final meeting with unions in Rome on Monday
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The struggling Italian national carrier Alitalia reported narrower first-quarter losses Tuesday as the airline reaches the final stages of a tender bid to go private.
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The Italian government said Wednesday it would decide by mid-January which of two contenders should take over Italy's ailing flag carrier Alitalia -- European giant Air France-KLM or Italy's Air One.
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The Italian government plans to sack the head of Italy's struggling airline Alitalia, Giancarlo Cimoli, at the next meeting of shareholders on February 22.