That is not a Bloomberg/Business Week "article." It is a private company profile created on the Bloomberg website by one or more a third parties who simply created a user ID, which anyone can do to create or edit company profiles. Bloomberg itself does not create profiles for profiles for private companies.
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Someone also created a Bloomberg profile for Hydraiki Naval, a privately-owned Greek company, which includes a false claim that it was acquired by PVEI on 4/23/13.
People associated with PVEI may be creating and editing these company profiles. Like Wikipedia, anyone can create or edit company profiles and other content on Bloomberg.com. The site itself warns that information posted is not verified.
Bloomberg / Businessweek company profiles are not reliable as a source of information.
