Another month passes by and another takeover tale about Papa John's emerges.
I see arch rivals at Bloomberg and Reuters have followed up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert about the takeover rumours surrounding US-listed medical devices maker Teleflex Inc.
It didn't take long for rivals at Reuters to follow up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert about the private equity takeover rumours circulating about CommVault Systems, Inc, the US-listed cyber security company.
Hacks at Reuters have followed up on the takeover rumours circulating about Dutch chip packaging company BE Semiconductor Industries that little old Betaville came across eighteen months ago.
Rivals at Reuters have finally cottoned on to the Abivax takeover story that little old Betaville has been writing about over the last few months through a series of UNCOOKED Alerts on this website.
A fresh twist on the Papa John's takeover shenanigans emerged last night when rivals at Reuters broke a story about how an activist investor has built up a stake at the pizza delivery chain.
It would appear these days that hackettes at Reuters are the most keen on following up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED and RARE alerts.
First Reuters and now hacks at the venerable Wall Street Journal have decided to follow up little old Betaville's series of UNCOOKED Alerts about the takeover talks involving US-listed SpringWorks Therapeutics.
Hat tip to hacks at Reuters who appear to have smoked out Qualcomm's interest in purchasing Alphawave IP Group by revealing takeover interest from another party.
Amy-Jo Crowley and her hackette chums at Reuters dug out a good story earlier today about Italy's MFE preparing a bid for ProSiebenSat.1, the Germany-listed broadcaster.
Hat tip to Amy-Jo Crowley of Reuters.
Was yesterday's Bloomie scoop about Rio Tinto's £130 billion merger talks with Glencore a bit of a hullabaloo about nothing?
It's taken a year but it would appear that Amy-Jo Crowley of Reuters has finally discovered which private equity firm may be seriously looking at taking Worldline private.
I have to keep on reminding some readers: sometimes it takes a few days for little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alerts to be followed up but sometimes it takes a few months.
Now Bloomberg is claiming to have had the GXO Logistics Inc takeover scoop.
Little old Betaville has noticed that a couple of rival senior deals reporters have thrown the towel in on journalism and taken jobs working in financial public relations.
Rivals at Reuters have finally decided to follow up little old Betaville's series of UNCOOKED Alerts about the takeover rumours surrounding Vestis Corp, the US-listed supplier of rental uniforms and work place supplies.
Bid rumours about Maravai Life Sciences Holdings (MRVI) have been published at least once a year but up until this afternoon there hadn't been one in 2024.
It certainly feels like European rainmakers have drifted off to their Mediterranean villas for the rest of August.
Stockmarkets have taken a beating today but deals are still happening.