Wirtschaft
Austrian BA-CA Completes Sale of Croatian Subsidiary
Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BA-CA), owned by Italian bank UniCredit , completed the sale of its Croatian...
Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BA-CA), owned by Italian bank
UniCredit
, completed the sale of its Croatian subsidiary
HVB Splitska Banka
to French
Societe Generale
last Friday. The price of the deal was EUR 1 billion. The sale of HVB Splitska Banka was necessary for anti-monopoly reasons.
HVB Splitska Banka, with a network of 112 branches and a workforce of 1,112, had a balance sheet value of EUR 3.2 billion at the end of 2005. The bank has some 460,000 clients.
BA-CA, which will be responsible for UniCredit business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), will assume control of the UniCredit Croatian subsidiary
Zagrebacka Banka
(ZABA). ZABA, with a balance sheet value of EUR 8.9 billion, is leader on the Croatian banking market with a share of 24 per cent.
The bank has 130 branches with a staff of 4,200 and provides services to 1.2 million clients. UniCredit operates 2,900 branches with a staff of 60,000 in CEE where it has some 17 million clients.