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DaimlerChrysler tops

German management

study league

FRANKFURT: DaimlerChrysler AG received top marks in a management assessment study of Germany's biggest 30 companies by a leading fund management group while rival VW languished at the bottom of the table, a magazine reported on Wednesday.

U.S.-German car maker DaimlerChrysler topped a corporate governance study of Germany's 30 blue-chip DAX share index companies conducted by German fund manager , German monthly Manager magazine reported.

Europe's biggest car maker Volkswagen found itself at the bottom of the DWS league table, the magazine reported in a summary of an article to appear in its February edition.

"The more internationally distributed a company's share capital is the better its company supervision," the magazine said.-Reuters