AD HOC STATEMENT: Hawesko Holding AG about rumours of a takeover of WEIN & CO
January 04, 2018 at 07:00 pm IST
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AD HOC STATEMENT: Hawesko Holding AG about rumours of a takeover of WEIN & CO
04-Jan-2018 / 14:23 CET/CEST
Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.
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Hamburg, 4. January 2018: As part of its strategy, published in the 2016 Annual Report, the Hawesko Holding AG (HAW GR, HAWG.DE, DE0006042708) is continually seeking meaningful additions to domestic and European foreign markets.
In connection with rumours raised in the market of a possible acquisition of the Austrian wine trading company WEIN & CO Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H., Vösendorf/Austria, the management board of Hawesko Holding declares that it has expressed interest in WEIN & CO to the owner, but no concrete negotiations are currently taking place.
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Language:
English
Company:
Hawesko Holding AG
Große Elbstraße 145 d
22767 Hamburg
Germany
Phone:
+49 40 30 39 2100
Fax:
+49 40 30 39 2105
E-mail:
ir@hawesko-holding.com
Internet:
www.hawesko-holding.com
ISIN:
DE0006042708
WKN:
604270
Listed:
Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Hamburg; Regulated Unofficial Market in Tradegate Exchange
Hawesko Holding SE, formerly Hawesko Holding AG, is a Germany-based retailer and wholesaler of wines, champagnes, and other alcoholic drinks. The Company reports 3 operating segments: Retail, e-commerce, and Business 2 Business (B2B). Retail and e-commerce serve end customers along a variety of distribution channels, while the B2B segment supplies restaurants and commercial resellers. The Retail segment serves multi-channel trading by selling wine via a network of retail outlets (Jacquesâ) run by independent agency partners, based around shops, bars and an online shop, in the guise of Wein & Co. B2B is the wholesale and distribution segment, comprising business activities with retailers, an in-house sales force and by an organization of trade representatives via Wein-Wolf and Globalwine in Austria and Swiss markets. The e-commerce segment comprises distance selling of wine and champagne directly to consumers, gifts for corporate and private customers by covering all formats of trading.