Also Hitachi enter the game Alstom. The Japanese electronics company will participate in thejoint offer of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Siemens to acquire part of the energy assets of the French industrial group. This was confirmed by the head of Hitachi's thermal and nuclear energy division, when asked about the rumors in the Nikkei newspaper about Mhi-Siemens' 7,25 billion offer.
“Hitachi has been informed and we think this is an attractive offer,” he replied. The proposal is aimed at countering the offer made by the Americans of General Electric to buy the entire energy division of Alstom for 12,35 billion.
It also arrived today an official note from the French government, in which Paris recalls “that there is an offer which is known and filed, that of General Electric, and another offer which should be confirmed in the next few days, which sees Mitsubishi associated with Siemens. We have no preference for one or the other proposal. We have needs which are employment, maintaining activities in France, energy independence. On this we measure the offers and our aim now is to ensure that the proposals are improved to respond to these objectives”.
