Barely a day goes by during this dealmaking boom without a City broking analyst theorising on which company might be the next takeover target.
Indeed, William Woods of Alliance Bernstein is the latest and perhaps come up with the most audacious takeover pick yet. ..
Intrepid Daily Mail hackette Francesca Washtell has landed a line about a possible takeover of Babcock International, Britain's largest defence contractor.
Washtell reports in her market report column that there are rumours two private equity groups are "sniffing around" Babcock and that's the reason why the company's shares have been performing so well recently. Below is a link to Washtell's excellent column:..
The Daily Mail's campaign against private equity industry clearly isn't putting off the buy-out barons from buying yet another UK-listed company...
There appears to be a growing trend in British national newspapers of burying quality merger and acquisition story lines into the middle of feature reports or editorial think pieces...
The Daily Mail's business section has splashed on a story about CVC Capital Partners weighing a £500 million plus bid for beleguered government outsourcer Capita. Below is the link:
It's tough to get excited about bid tales in this awful bear market. But today there was a line tucked away in the Alex Brummer's column in the business section of the Daily Mail that might give bulls something to chew over...
Betaville doesn't enjoy seeing any company collapse into administration but I note the fact that the Daily Mail and others are now reporting that Thomas Cook is on the verge of going under. Below is a link to the Daily Mail piece (which was splashed across the front page of the main book but I think was a follow from the Kleinmanator of Sky News)...
Take a bow Lucy White of the Daily Mail for completing nailing the "Mike Ashley to bid for Patisserie Valerie" story.
The business section of the Daily Mail splashed on the Lucy's scoop a couple of weeks ago. Below is a link to her original piece:..
Are you bored waking up every morning to pages and pages of Brexit coverage about essentially the same issues and arguments that have been aired since the referendum?
Are you fed up with the lack of hard corporate news?
Is the recent bout of media navel gazing about the state of (my) industry driving you up the wall?
Well, it is August after all so something has to fill the pages.....
So, today's business section of the Daily Mail appears to be echoing the theme Betaville has aired over the last week about a rekindling of China-backed dealmaking for European/British businesses. I have pasted the link below:..