Tagged: 'Buffett'

Deals, deals, deals ... in a bear market - Part 76

Tuesday, 02 September 2025 8:12 pm

European summer holidays are drawing to a close but it still the City of London's dealmaking machine hasn't quite cranked up into top gear, yet.

Kraft Heinz

Elliott

PepsiCo

The Daily Telegraph

Warren Buffett

Betaville

Spotted: top City spinner ambling up Portobello Road...

Tuesday, 29 April 2025 2:37 pm

Little old Betaville was wondering down the Portobello Road in London's trendy Notting Hill district yesterday evening when I spotted what is probably the closest thing the world of British financial relations has to a City rainmaker and political power broker.

Capital One agrees to buy Discover Financial for $35 billion

Tuesday, 20 February 2024 7:50 amAmerican financial media outfits Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal were clearly onto something when they began to report yesterday that lender Capital One was in talks to buy credit card firm Discover Financial.

Warren Buffett

Capital One

Discover Financial

Weekend review: BP and, er, that's it... - Part 2

Tuesday, 19 September 2023 1:01 pmI see Alex Brummer, veteran City hack and business commentator at the Daily Mail, is also jumping onto the BP could be vulnerable to a bid thesis.

Daily Mail

Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway

Unilever should buy Kraft Heinz, argues Exane BNP Paribas

Tuesday, 24 May 2022 9:50 amRemember when Warren Buffett and Brazilian private equity firm 3G tried to buy Unilever for £115 billion?

Kraft Heinz

Warren Buffett

Unilever

Buffett buys insurer Alleghany for $11.6 billion

Monday, 21 March 2022 9:59 amWarren Buffett is splashing out over $11 billion on US-listed property and casualty insurer Alleghany Corporation.

Alleghany

Warren Buffett

Unilever bids £50 billion for GlaxoSmithKline's consumer arm, reveals The Sunday Times - Part 2

Monday, 17 January 2022 9:57 pmWell, it looks like Ian "Kingy" King is first out of the traps to highlight something little old Betaville has been ruminating on with an old City contact over a few glasses down the pub this evening.

KKR might make a move on WPP in the Autumn, according the Daily Mail's Brummer

Wednesday, 01 April 2020 9:45 pmIt's tough to get excited about bid tales in this awful bear market. But today there was a line tucked away in the Alex Brummer's column in the business section of the Daily Mail that might give bulls something to chew over.

Ratcliffe sniffed around Independent Oil & Gas's debt - sources

Thursday, 31 October 2019 5:28 pmChemicals tycoon Sir Jim Ratcliffe has been sniffing around Independent Oil & Gas's debt.

Independent Oil and Gas

London Capital & Finance

Warren Buffett

Jim Ratcliffe

The Buffett conundrum...- Part 2

Wednesday, 08 May 2019 9:44 pmWhen I'm in the office I often pick up Financial News, a trade rag that many years ago gave little old Betaville one of his first jobs in financial journalism.

The Buffett conundrum...

Thursday, 02 May 2019 10:52 amBetaville has been inundated with phone calls since the venerable Financial Times ran its interview with the Sage of Omaha, in which the octogenarian billionaire investor suggested he is looking at doing a big UK deal.

Back on Tip TV talking about Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive and Stada - part 2

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 4:58 pm

Tick Tock

Wednesday, 22 February 2017 6:51 pmBloomberg also joined in by raking over the collapsed transaction in its "Deal of the Weak" podcast - https://assets.bwbx.io/av/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/vrYUVnX10ZNI/v2.mp3. This was a rather amusing affair as the reporters involved reacted with incredulity that a story of such magnitude could be broken on a blog, in this case FT Alphaville. It was almost as if the Bloomberg hacks were trying to claim FT Alphaville hadn't broken the story because there was no "attribution" to "people familiar with the matter".

Deals, deals, deals ... in a bear market - Part 76

Tuesday, 02 September 2025 8:12 pm

European summer holidays are drawing to a close but it still the City of London's dealmaking machine hasn't quite cranked up into top gear, yet.

Spotted: top City spinner ambling up Portobello Road...

Tuesday, 29 April 2025 2:37 pm

Capital One agrees to buy Discover Financial for $35 billion

Warren Buffett

Capital One

Discover Financial

Weekend review: BP and, er, that's it... - Part 2

Tuesday, 19 September 2023 1:01 pmI see Alex Brummer, veteran City hack and business commentator at the Daily Mail, is also jumping onto the BP could be vulnerable to a bid thesis.

Daily Mail

Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway

Unilever should buy Kraft Heinz, argues Exane BNP Paribas

Tuesday, 24 May 2022 9:50 amRemember when Warren Buffett and Brazilian private equity firm 3G tried to buy Unilever for £115 billion?

Kraft Heinz

Warren Buffett

Unilever

Buffett buys insurer Alleghany for $11.6 billion

Monday, 21 March 2022 9:59 amWarren Buffett is splashing out over $11 billion on US-listed property and casualty insurer Alleghany Corporation.

Alleghany

Warren Buffett

Unilever bids £50 billion for GlaxoSmithKline's consumer arm, reveals The Sunday Times - Part 2

KKR might make a move on WPP in the Autumn, according the Daily Mail's Brummer

Ratcliffe sniffed around Independent Oil & Gas's debt - sources

Thursday, 31 October 2019 5:28 pmChemicals tycoon Sir Jim Ratcliffe has been sniffing around Independent Oil & Gas's debt.

Independent Oil and Gas

London Capital & Finance

Warren Buffett

Jim Ratcliffe

The Buffett conundrum...- Part 2

Wednesday, 08 May 2019 9:44 pmWhen I'm in the office I often pick up Financial News, a trade rag that many years ago gave little old Betaville one of his first jobs in financial journalism.