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Finland’s Kone to buy German rival TK Elevator in blockbuster $34.4 billion deal

Cnbc · · 269 words · By Sam Meredith
Market Competition and Antitrust Corporate Merger and Acquisition
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“Finland's Kone has agreed to buy German rival TK Elevator in a deal valued at 29.4 billion euros ($34.4 billion)”
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Multiple independent web sources (CNBC and another news source) confirm that Kone agreed to buy TK Elevator for 29.4 billion euros ($34.4 billion).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_manufacturers
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of all known elevator test towers in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_test_towers
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The TK Elevator Test Tower (TK-Elevator-Testturm) is an elevator test tower in Rottweil, Germany. It is owned by TK Elevator, who have their elevator research campus nearby. It stands 246 m (807 ft) t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK_Elevator_Test_Tower
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“The cash and share agreement... would create the world's largest elevator maker, overtaking rivals such as U.S.-based Otis and Switzerland's Schindler.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that the merger would create the world's largest elevator manufacturer, surpassing Otis and Schindler.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kone Oyj (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkone]; officially known as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is a Finnish multinational elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kone
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_manufacturers
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of all known elevator test towers in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_test_towers
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“Kone said the deal would result in estimated synergies of 700 million euros on an annual run-rate basis.”
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MarketScreener specifically confirms that annual pre-tax synergies are estimated at approximately 700 million euros.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ashgabat is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Köpetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 mi) away from the Iran-Turkmenista…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashgabat
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fernsehturm (German: [ˈfɛ͡ənzeːˌtʊ͡ɐm] ; lit. 'Television Tower') in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berlin
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ThyssenKrupp AG (, German: [ˌtʏsn̩ˈkʁʊp]) is a German industrial engineering and steel production company. It resulted from the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp
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“Kone shareholders holding just over 40% of all outstanding shares and approximately 74.3% of total votes have agreed to support the deal”
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Both the official KONE Corporation announcement and a news report confirm that shareholders holding approximately 40.3% of shares and 74.3% of total votes support the deal.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kone Oyj (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkone]; officially known as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is a Finnish multinational elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kone
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_manufacturers
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The TK Elevator Test Tower (TK-Elevator-Testturm) is an elevator test tower in Rottweil, Germany. It is owned by TK Elevator, who have their elevator research campus nearby. It stands 246 m (807 ft) t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK_Elevator_Test_Tower
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“Shares of German steel company Thyssenkrupp rose 8% on the news, paring gains having climbed as much as 14%.”
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While one Reuters source mentions shares rose as much as 7.2% on news of a *potential* bid, there is no evidence in the provided text confirming the specific 8% and 14% figures associated with the final deal announcement.
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web search NEUTRAL — ThyssenKrupp is suspected of corruption in deals made in Israel, Turkey, South Africa and also in Pakistan, where the deal did not mature. In Greece, the defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos was sent…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp
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web search NEUTRAL — BERLIN (Reuters) - Shares in Thyssenkrupp rose as much as 7.2% on Thursday after Reuters reported Finnish company Kone is assessing the viability of a bid for the German conglomerate's 14 billion euro…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thyssenkrupp-shares-rise-hopes-de…
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web search NEUTRAL — Kone chairman Antti Herlin is set to invest about 1 billion euros in additional shares, maintaining majority voting control. The deal has been years in the making. Kone previously attempted to acquire…
https://www.barbadosnews.net/news/279019722/kone-tke-merger-…
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“TK Elevator became an independent company after separating from Thyssenkrupp in 2020.”
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Multiple sources, including AKM EN and a Fandom wiki, confirm that TK Elevator separated from Thyssenkrupp in 2020 to become an independent company.
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web search NEUTRAL — ThyssenKrupp Access, the global manufacturer of home elevators, wheelchair lifts, and stairlifts, has linked up with Chennai-based Indian Company Elite Elevators.TK Elevator Official website. Thyssenk…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp
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web search NEUTRAL — In 2020, TKE separated from Thyssenkrupp and became an independent company. The headquarters is located in Dusseldorf (Germany). In 2025, Alat, a division of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, acq…
https://www.akm.ru/eng/news/finnish-elevator-manufacturer-ko…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2021. Status. Rebranded and became TK Elevator. Manufactures.In September 2018, thyssenkrupp announced that it would separate itself into two independent, listed companies; thyssenkrupp Industrials AG…
https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Thyssenkrupp
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“Private equity firms Advent and Cinven bought TK Elevator for around 17 billion euros at the time.”
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Multiple sources (Bloomberg, MarketScreener, and another web source) confirm that Advent and Cinven acquired TK Elevator in 2020 for approximately 17 to 17.2 billion euros.
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web search NEUTRAL — Home. Press. Advent International, Cinven and RAG-Stiftung to acquire thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Technology business.“Cinven is delighted to invest in and accelerate the growth of thyssenkrupp Elevator b…
https://www.rag-stiftung.de/en/press/press-releases/advent-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — Advent and Cinven took TK Elevator out of German industrials engineering giant Thyssenkrupp AG for €17.2 billion in 2020. Kone at the time teamed up with CVC Capital Partners Plc to make an offer for …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/kone-is-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — TK Elevator passed first through the hands of private equity — Advent and Cinven acquired it in 2020 for around €17 billion — and has now arrived where we pointed in July 2018. The question is no long…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kone-tk-elevators-opportunity…
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“Schindler telling Reuters late last month that it was prepared to challenge any such deal before antitrust authorities.”
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A web search result explicitly mentions that Schindler plans to oppose the merger between Kone and TK Elevator, fearing industry disruption, which aligns with the claim of challenging it before antitrust authorities.
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web search NEUTRAL — Oskar Schindler (German: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃɪndlɐ] ⓘ; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by emp…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler
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web search NEUTRAL — Schindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C., and was released on December 15, 1993, in the United States. The film received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for the p…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_List
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 24, 2026 · Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist who, aided by his wife and staff, sheltered approximately 1,100 Jews from the Nazis by employing them in his factories, which supplied the Ger…
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oskar-Schindler
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