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GM board opts to keep Opel: sources

Source: Reuters
Magna : UT : USA | about 1 month ago  
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  • Magna Europe chief Wolf smiles in Graz
    Magna Europe chief Wolf smiles in Graz
    Source: Reuters
  • General Motors said its board decided to keep Opel and won't sell the division
    General Motors said its board decided to keep Opel and won't sell the ...
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  • GM Europe chief Forster talks to Magna Europe chief Wolf in Graz
    GM Europe chief Forster talks to Magna Europe chief Wolf in Graz
    Source: Reuters
Magna Europe chief Wolf smiles in Graz
The board of General Motors Co has opted to keep Opel, sources briefed on the deliberations said on Tuesday, undoing months of painstaking negotiations to sell the European unit to a Russian-backed group led by Canada's Magna. GM's 13-member board was meeting on Tuesday in Detroit. The meeting of the...
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