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* discloses devilray Outlook rough evan longoria signed baseball evaluates this year, IT investment sluggish Stocks | Japan * Eyes 60 bln yen boost next year from restructuring * Shares close up 3.4 pct in flat market TOKYO, July 23 (Reuters) - Fujitsu Ltd (6702.T), Japan'sbiggest IT services company, said on Thursday it aims to morethan double its operating profit next year after restructuringits operations and expanding overseas revenues. (Additional reporting by Rene Wagner; Writing by Paul Carrel;Editing by Greg Mahlich) Stocks Mergers & Acquisitions Bonds Russia. RHJ aims to shrink production to return Opel to profit andmay be open to selling it back to GM at a later date. Magna wants to expand Opel's full-scale car assemblybusiness and forecasts high growth rates, particularly inRussia, home of consortium partner Sberbank (SBER03.MM). Merkel said on Wednesday Magna is still Germany's preferredpartner for Opel. Irwin took part in talks at Chancellor Angela Merkel'soffice on Wednesday, at which GM and German government officialsdiscussed the three offers for Opel Irwin left the talkswithout making any comment.
"Weneed to get them back on board." The "neutral" fifth member of the Trust board -- Fred Irwin,president of the American Chambers of Commerce in Germany -- maybe forced to try to actively broker a deal devilrays . "Neither (representative) has been helpful," said one personinvolved in the negotiations, echoing the views of others tamba bay rays . GERMAN DIVISIONS The Opel Trust's board is comprised of two General Motorsrepresentatives and two for Germany, one for Berlin and adelegate for the four federal states in which Opel has a plant.A fifth "neutral" board member has no vote tampa bay rays . The German government's representative on the board, ManfredWennemer, was leaning towards an offer from RHJ, while thestates' representative, Dirk Pfeil, had raised the idea ofinsolvency tropicana field concerts . Sources close to the negotiations said GM officials at thetalks clearly supported a rival offer from Belgium-basedfinancial investor RHJ and saw no basis for agreeing to Magnabeing Opel's partner "They just talked down Magna," said one source.
The endgame of the battle for control of Opel will play outin the Opel Trust, which has been responsible for Opel since GMentered bankruptcy in June, if the German government, which isbeing asked to provide the carmaker with loan guarantees, and35-percent shareholder GM cannot agree on an investor The Trustholds 65 percent of Opel shares devilrays baseball . "We have agreed to continue detailed talks with both Magnaand RHJ to secure Opel's future," he added evan longoria signed baseball . Other people involved in the negotiations over Opel's futuresaid Germany's representatives on a trust that could decide thelocal carmaker's fate do not share their government's preferencefor Canada's Magna to be its partner tamba bay rays . "We had a good and thoughtful discussion around the keyoperating metrics and key issues associated with the three finaloffers we received on Monday evening," John Smith, GM's chiefnegotiator for the sale of Opel, said in the statement . Itdid not mention BAIC in Thursday's statement on further talks. GM and German government officials failed to agree on apartner for Opel at talks held on Wednesday to discuss theoffers. GM has been considering three final offers for Opelsubmitted on Monday by Magna, RHJ and Chinese carmaker BAIC.
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