GERMANY: Sewing Machine Maker Pfaff Rimoldi May Buy Rival
German sewing machine manufacturer Pfaff Rimoldi Necchi Industrienaehmaschinen AG, a subsidiary of Italian firm Rimoldi Necchi, is set to snap up German rival Duerkopp-Adler AG in a bid to establish itself as a leader on the European market. The Italian company said on Friday it plans to invest between eight and 10 million German marks ($3.6-$4.5m) by 2004 in the expansion and modernisation of its Kaiserslautern subsidiary in western Germany,