Continental has transformed itself from a high-profile tyre maker into a leading global automotive systems manufacturer. Bob Cervi looks at the shake up and future prospects for the German firm. AT THE BEGINNING of this year the German manufacturing group Continental almost doubled in size with the acquisition of a large division belonging to Siemens, Europe's biggest engineering firm. Now, just as Continental is working hrough the practicalities of this friendly merger, it is facing a takeover bid from a comparatively small German bearings maker, Schaeffler.
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