Private Equity Firms Offer $8B for VNU

January 15, 2006

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VNU NV, the Dutch publisher and operator of the ASR surfwear trade show, is in talks to be acquired by a group of the biggest private equity firms, which have offered to buy the market research company for as much as $8.8 billion.

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