GM demands non-compete clauses in return for Opel patents - Spiegel

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - has told Group it would only sell licences for the manufacture of cars to the French company if it agreed not to sell them in North America, or China, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.

Without saying where it got the information, the magazine said under such an agreement would only be allowed to sell new models in those three markets following possible tie-up with PSA, but not existing ones such as electric car Ampera-e.

declined to comment on the report. was not immediately available for comment.

PSA, the Paris-based maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars, and Detroit-based GM confirmed on Feb. 14 they were in talks over PSA-tie-up to create Europe's second-largest carmaker by sales after Volkswagen.

(Reporting by Maria Sheahan; additional reporting by Laurence Frost and Ilona Wissenbach; editing by David Clarke)

(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

GM demands non-compete clauses in return for Opel patents - Spiegel

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - General Motors has told PSA Group it would only sell licences for the manufacture of Opel cars to the French company if it agreed not to sell them in North America, Russia or China, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - has told Group it would only sell licences for the manufacture of cars to the French company if it agreed not to sell them in North America, or China, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.

Without saying where it got the information, the magazine said under such an agreement would only be allowed to sell new models in those three markets following possible tie-up with PSA, but not existing ones such as electric car Ampera-e.

declined to comment on the report. was not immediately available for comment.

PSA, the Paris-based maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars, and Detroit-based GM confirmed on Feb. 14 they were in talks over PSA-tie-up to create Europe's second-largest carmaker by sales after Volkswagen.

(Reporting by Maria Sheahan; additional reporting by Laurence Frost and Ilona Wissenbach; editing by David Clarke)

(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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