Posts tagged: ITV
Friday, 16 June 2023, 7:20 am
Hat tip to Amy-Jo Crowley of Reuters.
The former Mail on Sunday business hack landed a great story last night about ITV weighing a £1 billion offer for rival production house All3Media. Below is a link to Amy-Jo's scoop:..
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Betaville IntelligenceTuesday, 22 March 2022, 9:29 am
Charles Allen - the former boss of ITV and now Lord Allen of Kensington - is set to become THG's new (non-executive) chairman. Below is a link to this morning's announcement confirming the appointment:
https://www.investegate.co.uk/thg-plc--thg-/rns/appointment-of-independent-non-executive-chair/202203220700085247F/..
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Saturday, 23 October 2021, 2:47 pm
Hat tip to my old Mail on Sunday mucker Jamie, "Nimmers", Nimmo for landing a great tale about ITV weighing a takeover bid of Channel 4.
Jamie's scoop also has a line about how Miroma Venture - which is chaired by Lord Grade, the former boss of the BBC and chairman of ITV, and run by entrepreneur Marc Boyan - is also looking at Channel 4. Below is a link to the tale:..
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Thursday, 15 July 2021, 4:38 pm
It took a while but scribblers at some of the City of London's top brokers have finally figured out there is a merger & acquisition boom taking place in Britain.
So now every stock market broker is punting a list of takeover tips, with the chaps and chapettes at Canaccord Genuity the latest bunch to draw up a list of bid targets...
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Saturday, 2 January 2021, 7:09 pm
Scribblers at Quest are tipping ITV and housebuilder Crest Nicholson as takeover targets for private equity as part of a 'gold rush' period for buy-out firms looking to pick up oversold bargains from the London market.
Yes, you read that right - ITV. Below is a link to The Times piece highlighting Quest's research...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 6:14 pm
There seems to be an awful lot of excitement in the mainstream business press about which companies are going to be promoted to, and demoted from, the FTSE 100 index.
I suppose there are a dearth of corporate stories around given it's the back end of a summer that has also had to contend with a pandemic. So, the latest quarterly reshuffle will help fill some space (and pixels)...
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Sunday, 7 July 2019, 11:00 pm
Oliver Shah's business comment piece in this weekend's The Sunday Times contains an interesting snippet for ITV watchers: an activist investor is rumoured to be studying the possibility of buying a stake in the broadcaster.
The piece goes on to speculate about how the company could look at splitting itself in two or a combination with a rival, such as Germany's ProSieben. Below is a link:..
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Wednesday, 15 November 2017, 11:01 am
Alistair Osborne, one of Betaville's favourite business commentators, today revives the ITV bid rumour is his excellent column in the business section of The Times.
It's been a while since a news organisation has trotted out the well-worn bid theory but Osborne is one of the wisest old hacks I have had the pleasure of working with, so it's worth paying attention to. I have pasted a link to Alistair's column below:..
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 11:30 am
The chaps and chapettes at FT Alphaville appear to be running behind schedule this week so I thought I should step in and fill the void.
I guess one event the market will be scrutinising will be Liberty Global's full-year results, which I'm told by people familiar with the matter will be unveiled this evening in the US...
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