Cold Steel. Lakshmi Mittal And The Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle For A Global Empire

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 340 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and age marks on the inside pages present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: COLD STEEL is the gripping story of the worlds biggest and most hard-fought industry takeover of recent years, an epic corporate battle that would send shockwaves through the political corridors of Europe, excite the worlds financial markets, enrich thirty hedge funds and transform the global steel industry.In 2006, the two largest steel-producers went head to head in a bitter battle for total market domination. Lakshmi Mittal, a Calcutta-born industrialist who had raised himself up from humble beginnings to become the worlds fourth-richest man, proposes a friendly merger with rival Arcelor, a pan-European company whose interested parties include the governments of Spain, Luxembourg and Belgium. Arcelors mercurial CEO, Frenchman Guy Dolle, firmly refuses, and the scene is set for a massive hostile takeover involving billions of dollars of finance, government and shareholder manoeuvring, and accusations of jingoism and double-dealing. Fast-paced and electrifying, COLD STEEL brings to life the cut and thrust of big business at war.

ISBN: 9780316028073