Posts tagged: Countrywide
Monday, 9 November 2020, 7:07 am
The takeover bids are coming in and fast in the London market as predators look to take advantage of ailing rivals, with Connells Group launching a raid on Countrywide.
In case you don't recall, Countrywide was trying to get a "strategic investment" deal done with Alchemy. The private equity firm had offered £90 million for a stake of between 50pc and 67pc in Countrywide...
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Betaville IntelligenceMonday, 24 February 2020, 8:58 am
Oh look - I see the mystery suitor that has been circling Countrywide for the last six months has finally decided to step out of the shadows via Mark, "the Kleinmanator", Kleinman of Sky News.
Below is a link to Mark's great scoop and the pieces I wrote last year about Countrywide (whose spinners were denying back then anything was afoot):..
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Sunday, 1 July 2018, 6:43 pm
So, farewell Iain Dey, who until yesterday was the business editor of The Sunday Times, a newspaper Betaville regularly writes for.
Iain and Betaville first worked together back over a decade ago when The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph decided to merge their respective business reporting teams. Below is a scoop we broke together during that period:..
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