Bloomberg is tipping Carrefour, the France-listed supermarket giant, as one of the most likely takeover targets of 2022.
Late last week the news agency claimed: "Carrefour SA beat out telecom and media companies to top the list of mergers and acquisitions targets in Europe, as dealmaking starts to recover from its worst quarter since summer 2020"...
Matthew Lynn, business commentator at Betaville's former employer The Sunday Telegraph, was at it again this weekend: making audacious predictions about potential megadeals this year...
It would appear France's BFM news channel has decided to follow up on little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert from last week about the Carrefour SA.
BFM is suggesting that Auchan and the Mulliez family, who control Auchan, are still keen to do a deal that could involve of a takeover of / or merger with Carrefour. Below is a link to the piece if you missed it:..
Bloomberg has finally decided to follow up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert on the takeover rumours swirling around Carrefour, the France-listed supermarket giant.
Over the weekend Bloomberg reported that Auchan, the privately-owned food retailer controlled by the billionaire Mulliez family, had approached Carrefour about a deal that would have valued the supermarket giant at around EURO 21.50 in cash and shares. Below is the link:..
Oh look - I see Le Monde, France's most serious newspaper, has followed up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert from earlier on the week about French supermarket giant Carrefour.
French hacks at Le Monde seem to be suggesting that Carrefour's boss is looking at "options" for consolidation after holding talks with the Mulliez family that own Auchan, another supermarket chain...
Will Canadian retail giant Couche-Tard take a look at a British grocer after being spurned by the French?
That's the question I asked myself, and a few investment banker chums after it emerged over the weekend that Couche-Tard's attempt to buy Carrefour had spectacularly failed within a few days of it being launched...