In buying Switzerland's Winterthur, AXA illustrates big European insurers' quest for scale and geographical diversity. Henri de castries, the chief execu-tive of axa, is not lacking in ambition. Last autumn he unveiled a plan to double the sales and triple the profits of the French insurance and asset-management group by 2012, relying heavily on internal growth. On June 14th Mr de Castries made a foray in another direction, unveiling the purchase of Winterthur, a European insurer, from Credit Suisse for SFr12.3 billion ($10 billion) in cash.
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机译：在购买瑞士的温特图尔时，AXA彰显了欧洲大型保险公司对规模和地域多样性的追求。 AXA的首席执行长亨利·德·卡斯特里（Henri de Castries）并不缺乏野心。去年秋天，他提出了一项计划，到2012年将法国保险和资产管理集团的销售额翻一番，利润翻三番，这主要依靠内部增长。 6月14日，德卡斯特里先生向另一个方向进发，宣布以123亿瑞士法郎（合100亿美元）的现金价格从瑞士信贷收购了欧洲保险公司温特图尔。
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