Russia Derails Danone, Carlsberg Exits by Seizing Assets

  • It’s the second time Putin has used decree to nationalize
  • Russia asserts right to seize assets from ‘unfriendly’ states
Russia has seized control of the local subsidiaries of France’s Danone and Denmark’s Carlsberg under a decree by President Putin. The move was aimed at companies from what Moscow called ‘unfriendly’ countries. Dasha Afanasieva, Bloomberg’s European Consumer Goods Reporter, spoke with Anna Edwards on “Bloomberg Markets Today.”Source: Bloomberg
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Russia seized control of the local subsidiaries of France’s Danone SA and Denmark’s Carlsberg A/S under a decree aimed at companies from “unfriendly” countries.