# Unbundling (demerger; decartelization; deconcentration)

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## Definition

The splitting of different production areas in a company - such as: The separation of several business divisions of a diversified group into distinct companies and the distribution of the shares of the new companies to shareholders in return for shares in the parent group. - The transition of a national economy from monopoly control by groups of large businesses, known as cartels, to a free market economy. This change rarely arises by market forces, and is generally the result of regulation by a governing body, as the economic restructuring of Germany after World War II). - In particular, also the breakup of the large German banks into thirty less efficient regional banks ordered by the occupying powers in 1947 after World War II. - See bank decentralization, German, decentralization principle, downsizing, gigabank, octopus, subsidiarity principle, synergy potentials. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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