Karstadt Sports falls under new ownership amid rumors on merger with Kaufhof

Nicolas Berggruen, the entrepreneur who acquired Karstadt out of bankruptcy proceedings in 2010, has sold a substantial part of the German department store company's assets to Signa Holding, a Vienna-based investment company specializing in real estate.

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