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16:34 – 1 Nov. | Updated 16:35 – 1 Nov.
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Rolls Royce has hired the consulting company Deloitte to find a buyer for the engine manufacturer Bergen Engines at Hordvikneset in Bergen, writes The Telegraph.
According to unnamed sources, the newspaper writes that the sale is expected to come ashore early next year, and the price tag is up to 100 million pounds, equivalent to 1.2 billion kroner.
The sources pointed to German Man and Finnish Wärtsilä as potential buyers of the factory in Bergen.
In February, it was announced that Rolls Royce wanted to get rid of Bergen Engines, as “the engine types produced by Bergen Engines do not fit into Rolls-Royce Power Systems’ future product portfolio”.
Large deficits
In recent years, Bergen Engine has been a giant loss drain and it has not made money since 2013.
Last year, the result before tax ended at minus NOK 965 million, of which write-downs amounted to NOK 639.6 million of the deficit.
Operating revenues increased from NOK 2.06 billion in 2018 to NOK 2.28 billion in 2019.
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