Hyundai locked out of Daewoo auction
Hyundai Motor''s bid for Daewoo Motor is a non-starter. The company has neither the firepower nor the friends to win control and so keep foreign competition at bay.
Hyundai Motor (HM) is likely to be squeezed out of the Korean government's auction of Daewoo Motor (DM), given the restricted access it now has to affiliates' finances and the unwillingness of other potential bidders to take on the anti-trust baggage it would bring to a partnership.
The fact HM is still in the race and making noises appears to be little more than a face-saving exercise after controversial changes at the top of the Hyundai Group (HG), Korea's largest chaebol. HG found…
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