Here is a lesson for younger hacks, investors and bankers.
In May 2023, Daniel Kretinsky, the eastern European billionaire dubbed the 'Czech Sphinx', suggested to Oliver "Shahsy" Shah of The Sunday Times in a wide ranging, set piece on the record interview that he has no intention of launching a takeover bid for Royal Mail...
Deal hacks at the Financial Times have just delivered a decent scoop.
According to the venerable Financial Times, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is preparing a takeover bid for Royal Mail owner International Distributions Services. Below is a link to the FT story:
https://www.ft.com/content/a6f0251b-454b-4aa8-9c16-aee03f0c2e46..
Hat tip to Olly "Shahsy" Shah for landing the first ever on the record interview in a British newspaper with Daniel Kretinsky, the energy tycoon dubbed the Czech Sphinx.
Kretinsky has been building large stakes in some of Britain's biggest companies, such as J Sainsbury and Royal Mail...
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...
An investment firm owned by Lloyds Banking Group is preparing to sell CitySprint, one of Britain's biggest same-day delivery companies.
People familiar with the matter said Lloyds Development Capital, the private equity arm of Lloyds, had recently appointed advisers from corporate finance firm Raymond James to look at offloading CitySprint...
Loyal readers might have been worried that Tip TV had given me the chop after several weeks without a clip being re-published on little old Betaville.
But fear not - I haven't been on the show because Tip TV have been moving studios. And today my old mucker Moose (aka Nick Batsford) invited me back for a sit down with man-about-town Zak Mir...