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News Digest Item
08 May 2017

ā€œE.ON: Costly liberationā€

Handelsblatt

E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen calls the company’s split last year an ā€œact of liberation,ā€ but according to an article by Jürgen Flauger in business daily Handelsblatt, it was an extremely expensive one. In a long analysis of the company’s balance sheet, Flauger says fossil spin-off Uniper’s first year as in independent company was a success. But for the renewable E.ON, it was a ā€œcriticallyā€ strenuous draw on capital resources, according to Flauger.

Read the analysis in German (behind paywall) .

Find background in the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę factsheet E.ON shareholders ratify energy giant’s split.

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