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Friday, 26 November 2021, 3:21 pm
Marshall Motor Holdings PLC, the UK-listed car dealership group, is at the centre of takeover speculation.
People following the situation have heard rumours a mystery predator is eyeing Marshall Motor Holdings and may have already approached the company about a takeover deal.
However, the identity of the party interested in buying Marshall Motor Holdings - Britain's seventh largest car dealer - is in unclear, said these people following the situation...
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Thursday, 25 November 2021, 7:25 pm
Betaville's favourite business commentator today suggests that ailing catalytic converter maker Johnson Matthey might be of interest to the buy-out barons if its new boss can't sort the company out soon enough...
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Betaville IntelligenceThursday, 25 November 2021, 6:46 pm
I see Bloomberg have finally decided to jump on the Intertrust takeover story bandwagon with their own take on the situation.
According to Bloomie, Apex - which recently outbid Cinven to buy UK-listed Sanne Group for over £1.5 billion - and CSC Global have made rival offers for Intertrust N.V. Below is the link to the Bloomberg scoop:..
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Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 10:06 am
Loyal readers will know that Betaville's has recently dug out a string of corking UNCOOKED and RARE alerts about European takeover situations, such as ICA Gruppen, CNP Assurance and Telecom Italia.
There is something that struck me about this recent spate of deals on the European continent: many of them involve their largest strategic shareholder taking the company private.
And Betaville suspects there could be a few more of this ilk.....
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Betaville IntelligenceTuesday, 23 November 2021, 7:51 pm
Apologies for the tardy post Betavillers but I have been running around all day trying to find you some more jackanories.
Anyway, I see Intertrust N.V., the Belgian fund administration company, has confirmed it has received some more offers. Below is the link to the statement in case you missed it:..
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Betaville IntelligenceMonday, 22 November 2021, 4:11 pm
Speculation is mounting Intertrust N.V., the trust and fund administration company, has received a higher offer.
People following the situation have heard rumours Intertrust may have received an offer of as much as EURO 20 a share.
The talk comes after Intertrust agreed to enter into exclusive talks with CVC Capital Partners about a deal that would see the private equity firm buy the business for EURO 18 a share...
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Sunday, 21 November 2021, 12:43 pm
First WM Morrison, then J Sainsbury and now, according to The Sunday Times, Apollo wants to buy Marks and Spencer.
Indeed, Jim "Armo" Armitage of The Sunday Times who has dug out a corking tale about the American private equity firm weighing a bid for M&S. Below is the link:..
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Betaville IntelligenceFriday, 19 November 2021, 3:51 pm
An American private equity firm is rumoured to be in talks with a local trade buyer about a possible deal for TIM, S.p.A.
People following the situation have heard talk KKR, the US-listed private equity giant, is in talks with a trade buyer from Italy about a possible offer for all or some of TIM, S.p.A, which was formerly known as Telecom Italia...
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Betaville IntelligenceThursday, 18 November 2021, 3:00 pm
TIM S.p.A, the Italy-listed telecoms company, has come under the spotlight amid a fresh round of speculation the company may soon be involved in a corporate transaction, such as a sale of a sizeable division or even a takeover.
People following the situation have heard talk TIM S.p.A, also known as Telecom Italia, is in live talks about a deal although the specific nature of the transaction remains unclear...
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Thursday, 18 November 2021, 8:11 am
Lord Rothermere's announcement about the departure of Geordie Greig as editor of the Daily Mail wasn't the only big media industry news story announced yesterday.
The super talented Izabella Kaminska, the editor of FT Alphaville, announced on Twitter her formal departure from the venerable Financial Times, thereby confirming a tale on, er, little Betaville from a couple of weeks ago. Below is the link if you don't recall:..
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Betaville IntelligenceWednesday, 17 November 2021, 6:18 pm
I see rivals at CTFN are pissing from a high height all over little old Betaville's RARE ALERT from yesterday about An American company, possibly Thermo Fisher Scientific, weighing a counter approach for Qiagen, the US-European listed diagnostics group. Below is a link to the CTFN tale:
https://ctfn.news/news/nov-17-2021-qgen-548755..
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Monday, 15 November 2021, 9:32 pm
Anybody who knows Betaville well knows I like a good lunch (dinner and breakfast, too) with a chatty chum from Mayfair or the City of London.
That's because a top quality feed often leads to an excellent lead, tip or even outright scoop.
So, Betaville was particularly excited to see a former Bloomberg food writer, Richard Vines, team up with a Michelin starred chef, Pierre Koffmann, to launch a new food and restaurant blog - Koffmann & Vines...
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Sunday, 14 November 2021, 3:12 pm
There were quite a few articles that caught Betaville's in the Sunday newspaper business sections this week.
Indeed, one of the most interesting pieces was an on the record, set piece interview by Jim "Armo" Armitage, The Sunday Times business editor, with Nick Read, chief executive of Vodafone...
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Betaville IntelligenceFriday, 12 November 2021, 10:03 pm
Hacks at the venerable Wall Street Journal are claiming to have landed an "exclusive" about activist hedge fund Mantle Ridge targeting US-listed retailer Dollar Tree, Inc. Below is the link:..
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