PPR Launches IPO For African Unit

News: French luxury retail group PPR launched an initial public offering (IPO) for its African automobile and pharmaceutical distribution unit CFAO on the Paris stock market on November 17 2009. The luxury group is expecting to raise EUR959mn (US$1.4bn) from France's largest IPO in the last two years, which represents 50.39% of CFAO's capital.

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