Posts tagged: the times

Just Group may be a takeover target, reports The Times

Saturday, 9 March 2024, 7:10 pm

The Times today also reports that specialist London-listed insurer Just Group may be a takeover target.

Well, the suggestion is effectively hooked on some quotes from Barrie Cornes, an analyst from Panmure Gordon.

Now old Barrie Cornes has been covering the British insurance market as a stockbroker scribbler since little old Betaville was a cub reporter on The Daily Telegraph's City desk a long time ago...

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The newspaper, the dealmakers and the dealmaking...

Saturday, 9 March 2024, 6:57 am

You really know when you in the middle of a dealmaking boom when British newspapers start profiling the investment bankers that put the deals together.

And this morning chums and former colleagues on The Times business section did exactly that.

So, if you are interested in the rainmkers who have been working on the deals announced in the last few days and weeks then I suggest clicking on the link below:..

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Where is maverick Mike on Superdry?

Saturday, 3 February 2024, 8:32 am

Hat tip to Isabella Fish of The Times for effectively smoking out Julian Dunkerton's plans to take Superdry private.

Superdry was yesterday forced to confirm Dunkerton's move after Isabella's story about stakebuilding from First Seagull AS, a Norwegian hedge fund. Below is a link to Superdry's confirmation:..

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The Times tips Ladbrokes owner Entain as a takeover target...

Friday, 22 December 2023, 9:49 am

The Times appears to be publishing its New Year tips early.

Emma Powell, editor of The Tempus stocktipping column, today concludes in her lengthy piece about the FTSE 100-listed the owner of Ladbrokes and Gala Coral that "a potential bid for Entain by MGM Resorts seems more probable than it has done for some time"...

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Saudi Telecom Company said to be sniffing around Drahi's stake in BT Group, reports The Times

Thursday, 21 December 2023, 9:18 am

Dominic "Dom" Walsh, veteran business hack on The Times, began his market report with an intriguing line about how the Saudi Telecom Company is circling BT Group, the FTSE 100-listed telecoms giant.

According to Dom's report, the Saudi Telecom Company may be talking to Patrick Drahi about buying some or all of his shareholding in BT Group following a period in which the Switzerland-based telecoms billionaire has been accumulating a 25pc stake...

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PrettyLittleThing founder said to be weigh multi-billion pound takeover bid for TopShop, reports The Times

Wednesday, 8 November 2023, 6:30 pm

Hat tip to Isabella Fish, the new (ish) retail editor at The Times.

Tucked away in her piece about Shein, the Chinese retail giant, registering an interest in purchasing TopShop from Asos was an almost more interesting line about Umar Kamani putting together a rival bid by forming consortium with Middle Eastern investors to buy the fahsion brand. Below is a link to Isabella's story:..

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The phantom bid ...

Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 10:32 am

Hacks at The Times have done a good job of unpacking the shenanigans going on at Jersey-based oil and has explorer Upland Resources.

It would appear the company reveived a takeover approach from a "phanton" offeror. Now, you don't get many of those in the London market.

Anyway, if you want to read the whole story then little old Betaville suggests reading Jessica Newman and Emily Gosden's piece on this sorry affair by clicking on the link below:..

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