ABB holds power systems division and firmly resists breaking
ABB maintains its current network division. The Swiss Siemens competitor wants to convince investors in the Capital Markets Day on 4 October with a growth agenda.
The Swiss ABB Group wants the demands of activists around major shareholder Cevian Capital parry with a growth agenda. The strategic review of the current systems division had brought the result that their whereabouts in the Group creates value for shareholders. The reported manager magazin in its new edition, which is available on Friday (September 23) in trade, citing the business community.
The management at ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer will therefore hold on the division. Sells hand was the global system business for high voltage cables NKT Cables as ABB announced on Wednesday.
The aim is also to increase the cost efficiency, mm, citing the business community. In the medium term could the operating result of the division be increased by a mean hundreds of millions per year, so an internal ABB default.
As the manager magazine further reported that ABB top support of the largest shareholder Investor AB has it (10.5 percent). An ABB spokesman declined to comment on the information.