Austria's OMV has intensified its courtship of Mol with a direct appeal to the 40% of the Hungarian company's shareholders not controlled by either Mol's management or OMV itself.The Austrian firm is starting to make the right noises,talking of a 35 billion-40 billion merger of equals,keeping the refining headquarters in Budapest,and having Hungarian representation on the combined group's board - but to little effect,it seems.With both Mol's bosses and the Hungarian government still implacably opposed,a merger between two of Central and Eastern Europe's largest oil companies looks no nearer completion.
展开▼
