Unicredit buys 32.5% of Italy's Esselunga real estate unit - source

MILANO (Reuters) - Italy's biggest lender UniCredit has bought a minority stake in the company which owns the real estate assets of supermarket chain Esselunga for 435 million euros (401 million pounds), a source said on Monday. On Saturday family-owned Esselunga said the majority owners of its parent company Supermarkets Italiani had reached an agreement to buy the remaining 30 percent of the company, in a deal that values Esselunga 6.1 billion euros.Supermarkets Italiani's main shareholders..