The US-American Investmentfirma The Blackstone Group was created 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. Their total investments amount according to own data up to 31. March 2005 on 16.6 billion US Dollar.

The company busily nearly 600 employees and has seats in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Mumbai, London, Paris and Hamburg. The two founders Peterson and Schwarzman lead the presidency over the supervisory board.

Divisions are among other things private Equity and management consultation. Momentarily Blackstones private Equity Group is for example involved to Celanese or universal Studios the Florida.

According to own data Blackstone plans however, strengthens business in Europe to transact to want. Thus does the group support for the moment (when that "Providence Equity" in the effort around the portable radio section of the Spanish telecommunications enterprise Aunas.

At the end of April 2006 acquired Blackstone for 2,68 billion euro a 4,5%-Anteil at the German Telekom of the state-own kreditanstalt fuer wiederaufbau (KfW), which holds further 17.5 per cent by the DT. Blackstone committed itself to hold the shares for at least two years.

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