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French and British natural gas groups announced plans to invest in eastern Germany`s gas network, a lucrative monopoly of the former communist state. Gaz de France Chairman Francis Gutmann said his group would sign a deal Wednesday with the government`s Treuhand privatization agency to buy 25.5 percent of a gas company in Potsdam, one of 15 regional distributors in the east. British Gas PLC, which announced a 24 percent investment in a Halle-based distributor Monday, said it expected to sign a deal in the next week for another company in Leipzig and is negotiating a third in Magdeburg.
