It's been a while since the London market saw a FTSE 100 food retailer takeover bid.
So little old Betaville's eyes almost popped out while reading Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman's column in City AM...
It would appear The Kleinmanator of Sky News wasn't the only City hack onto the Ted Baker bid rumour.
Last week, Bryce, "The Flying Scotsman", Elder of the venerable Financial Times got into the story in his excellent City Insider column, pointing out that there was talk circulating the London market of a £300 million plus takeover offer. Below is a link to Bryce's piece:..
The old Kleinmanator of Sky News is at it again - digging out a corking scoop.
This time Mark, a former colleague and boss during our time at the The Daily Telegraph, has sniffed out a top story about CC Capital's interest in buying IWG, the serviced office company controlled by entrepreneur Mark Dixon. Below is a link to Mark's piece:..
Mark, the "Kleinmanator", Kleinman of Sky News has gone for a Saturday afternoon wind up with a story about BT Group hiring Goldman Sachs and, maybe, Robey Warshaw to work on a defence ahead of a £15 billion takeover approach. Below is the link:
https://news.sky.com/story/bt-group-board-on-alert-for-15bn-takeover-approaches-12054366..
I see former colleague Mark, "the Kleinmanator", Kleinman of Sky News has just published a rather interesting piece about Interserve, a company I have written about recently on Betaville and in the Mail on Sunday's business section (below are the links).
https://www.www.betaville.co.uk/news/interserve-poised-to-be-put-on-the-block-sources/..
In case you missed it - I did because City AM isn't distributed where I live - here is a link to the Kleinmanator's New Year prediction column, in which he writes he expects AstraZeneca will be bid for again by numerous international parties...
http://www.cityam.com/256491/-big-year-but-wont-trump-2016s-shocks
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I guess Mark Kleinman's piece yesterday about David Cameron, former British Prime Minister, carrying out a speach for private equity firm Bain Capital just goes to show the buy-out house doesn't care which side of the politcal divide you come from. In case you missed it, here is a link to Kleinman's piece published by Sky News:..