Billionaire Defies Retail Gloom With Bid for Germany's Metro
Published on: Sunday 23 June 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Stores are closing across Europe as consumers shift to e-commerce and discounters barge in. Yet a pair of investors is making an audacious takeover bid for Metro AG, valuing the German chain that sells food and other staples from no-frills warehouses at $6.6 billion.The proposal from Czech