Consolation for would-be Porsche owners

Issuer: Porsche International Financing plc

Issuer: Porsche International Financing plc

Amount: Dm200 million

Launched: April 23 1997

Lead manager: Deutsche Morgan Grenfell

“It was our idea,” says Porsche’s finance director Holger P Härter. Any finance chief would say the same about his company’s bond issue, but in this case it must be true. No banker would have come up with this scheme to sell bonds as status symbols.

This inaugural bond issue from the German luxury car maker was marketed as the latest accessory for the bondholder who has everything.

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