Posts tagged: Liberty

The busted auction list...

Thursday, 14 February 2019, 11:28 pm

City hacks are trying hard to dig up deal stories. This week, for example, Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman of Sky News "revealed" that the owners of sandwhich chain Eat and department store Liberty had hired advisers to find purchasers for both businesses.

However, according to Betaville's well-placed sources, there are just as many, if not more, deals falling over in the UK during this period of extreme political uncertainty...

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Deal Thursday

Thursday, 8 September 2016, 8:56 am

The summer is over (well, in the UK at least) and dealmaking has roared back into life.

This morning the Kleinmanator's mega scoop from last night about Micro Focus buying Hewlett-Packard's software division for $8 billion was confirmed on the Regulatory News Service, sending the the company's stock over 20pc higher...

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