Harman International this week denied reports that it had received a buyout bid from a Middle Eastern investment firm.
According to the New York Times, several news organizations received a fax last week that a possibly fictitious firm, Arabian Peninsula Group, was planning a takeover bid.
"The Company has not received such communications and is not familiar with any parties claiming to make such a solicitation," Harman said in a statement posted to its Web site.
A pair of private-equity firms, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the private-equity division of Goldman Sachs, walked away from plans to buy out Harman in 2007.
