Posts tagged: Tesco
Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 10:23 pm
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...
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Monday, 10 January 2022, 9:02 am
There was plenty to chew on in yesterday's British Sunday newspapers, including a fascinating set piece interview by Oliver "Shahsy" Shah of The Sunday Times with Paul Polman, the former chief executive of Unilever...
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Saturday, 4 September 2021, 10:33 pm
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. ..
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Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 12:11 pm
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...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 9:01 pm
It's hard for market practitioners to get enthusiastic about bid stories in this (almost official) bear market.
But let's not forget there have been three major deals announced this week - and it's only Wednesday!
On Monday, for example, insurance broker Aon agreed a $30 billion all share deal with Willis Towers Watson and Tesco announced the £8.2 billion sale of its Thai and Malaysian business to CP Group...
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Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 8:17 am
There are plenty of big names resigning from some of Britain's biggest companies this morning: Dave Lewis from Tesco; Martin Gilbert from Standard Life Aberdeen; Vernon Hill from Metro Bank.
Now, there is a mantra in journalism that "three makes a trend" but in this case it seems like these resignations have all come for different reasons...
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Friday, 29 September 2017, 2:48 pm
Well, to be honest that's not exactly what analysts at Royal Bank of Canada said. But the scribblers at the broker have indulged in a bit of fantasy M&A after claiming Dixons Carphone is vulnerable to a bid because the European electricals space has "started to consolidate"...
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Friday, 27 January 2017, 9:35 am
So, the UK M&A market has roared back into life with a fresh multi-billion deal announced this morning - Tesco's £3.7 billion takeover of wholesaler Booker. ..
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