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Shareholders of Mexican glass giant Vitro approved on Thursday the payment of a dividend of 0.25 peso per share.

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Vitro, the Mexican conglom-erate, sold its 51 per cent stake in Vitromatic, the white goods company, to Whirlpool of the US yesterday, in a deal valued at about Dollars 280m.

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