TUI AG - a group under pressure from the capital market. A workforce fights successfully against the break-up of its company
Transfer. European Review of Labour and Research
2009
15
2
Summer
251-270
case study ; financial market ; shareholder ; private equity
Financing and monetary policy
English
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"For years, TUI AG was pressured by active shareholders to concentrate on its core business – tourism – and break free from the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd AG.For five years, by constantly adopting new group restructuring measures, the Board managed to fend off the shareholders' demand. Then, in 2008, it finally opted to sell, triggering an unprecedented fight by the workforce to prevent the company from being sold to Asia. In the end, dogged persistence, strategic skill and sheer courage enabled the Board to pull off something that virtually everyone had written off as impossible: Hapag-Lloyd was sold to a Hamburg-bas remained in Hamburg."
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