The British mobile telephone giant Vodafone Airtouch Plc said Friday that it had received an unsolicited offer from Thyssenkrupp AG, Germany's largest steelmaker, for the car parts and engineering unit of Mannesmann, which Vodafone recently agreed to acquire for 777 billion in the biggest hostile takeover of all time.
Thyssenkrupp makes unsolicited offer for Vodafone subsidiary.