VNU BUYOUT SUCCESSFUL

Wednesday, 24 May 2006 Books+Publishing

A group of private equity firms led by Valcom have been successful in their revised bid to take over VNU, the Netherlands-based owner of A C Neilsen (see WBN 10 May). The deal is estimated to be worth €7.6 billion (A$12.1 billion).Nielsen is an international media and market research company...