Billionaire reportedly scoops German department store chain

Billionaire activist investor Nicolas Berggruen has reportedly won the bidding for the troubled German department store chain, Karstadt. The Goldman Sachs-led investment entity Highstreet, which owns a majority of Kartstadt real estate assets, is said to be unwilling to make concessions requested by Berggruen to save the department store brand.

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