Sunday, November 17, 2013

New-look Nokia set to ring in the changes

The Finnish group’s shareholders are likely to approve the sale of its once dominant mobile phones business to Microsoft for €5.4bn at an extraordinary general meeting in Helsinki on Tuesday. Some protests over the €19m pay-off to former chief executive Stephen Elop are also probable.

But even though it is selling a business representing half of its sales, Nokia’s share price has doubled since the deal’s announcement in early September. Investors may well be more optimistic but they also have big questions over the future direction of the new Nokia. Here are four of them.

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