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“Dutch publisher VNU NV is facing calls from its biggest investors to break up the company rather than be bought up for over 7 billion euros ($8.3 billion) by private equity firms.

“The world’s biggest market research company would be broken up into three segments — Media and Measurement, Marketing Information and Business Information.”

Reuters. VNU Major Shareholders Push for 3-Way Breakup: Report. WashingtonPost.com. Feb. 14, 2006.

See also:

Andrew Ross Sorkin. Hostility by Any Other Name Smells Just as Hostile. The New York Times. Feb. 12, 2006

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