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OAO Severstal
* Annual steel production: 12.5 million tonnes, about three times
Stelco's annual output.
* Financials: Made $597 million US in 2003 on sales of about $3.2
billion US. Had more than $1.4 billion in cash on hand as of June 30.
* Employees: About 40,000 unionized workers in steelmaking. Severstal
Group has 130,000 who work in steel, automotive, raw materials, transport
and insurance businesses.
* Chairman: Alexei Mordashov, 39, is one of the world's richest men
with net worth of $4.5 billion US, according to Forbes magazine.
* Parent company: Severstal Group, 15th in capitalization among
Russia's largest companies.
Deutsche Bank
* Deutsche Bank was founded in Berlin in 1870 "to transact
banking business of all kinds, in particular to promote and facilitate
trade relations between Germany, other European countries, and overseas
markets."
* The bank has the equivalent of $1,300 billion Cdn in assets with
more than 65,000 employees operating in 74 countries.
* More than half the bank's staff works outside Germany.
* Deutsche Bank became Europe's largest bank in terms of assets after
it acquired U.S.-based Bankers Trust Corporation in 1999.
GMP Capital Corp.
* Toronto-based GMP Capital Corp. is an independent Canadian
investment dealer for corporate clients and institutional investors.
* GMP's predecessor, Griffiths McBurney & Partners, was founded in
March 1995.
* GMP Capital Corp. went public on Dec. 9, 2003.
* In second quarter results, pretax income was $22.6 million, an
increase of 194 per cent from $7.7 million in the same period last year
and up 45 per cent from $15.6 million the previous quarter.
Clearwater Equilibrium Investor Group
* Hedge funds Clearwater Capital Management Inc. (Clearwater Capital)
and Equilibrium Capital Management Inc. (Equilibrium Capital) announced
yesterday they formed an investor group to make a bid for Stelco.
* President Roland Keiper was called the "smartest guy on Bay
Street" in a Report on Business Magazine profile.
Spectator wire services and staff
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