Posts tagged: The Daily Telegraph

The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - the series returns - Part 7

Friday, 15 March 2024, 7:02 am

Reports emerged overnight in the Financial Times and Bloomberg that Redbird IMI may now be looking to offload The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator after British parliamentarians moved to block the sale of the titles to the Redbird IMI investment vehicle backed by the United Arab Emirates. Below is a link to the FT piece:..

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - the series returns - Part 6

Monday, 15 January 2024, 6:32 pm

Little old Betaville has been ruminating on the Genteel Hustler's excellent scoop in yeseterday's The Sunday Times about Redbird IMI hiring Robey Warshaw to get its takeover of The Daily Telegraph over the line with the British regulators. Below is a link to Genteel's (also known as the William Turvill) scoop in case you missed it:..

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - the series returns - Part 5

Saturday, 13 January 2024, 11:28 am

The Genteel Hustler has been hustling hard.

Genteel - also known as William Turvill, a reporter on The Sunday Times business section - has just landed a cracking story about how Redbird IMI, the investment vehicle backed by the United Arab Emirates, has recruited advisory the advisory firm that counts George Osborne as one of its partners to try to get its takeover of The Daily Telegraph, littld old Betaville's former employer, over the line...

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Frasers Group in talks to buy Matchesfashion, reveals Sky News

Saturday, 16 December 2023, 8:33 am

Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman, City Editor of Sky News, is up early with a decent scoop about Mike Ashley's Frasers Group.

According to Kleiny - a former colleague during our time working on The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph - Frasers Group is in talks with private equity firm Apax about buying Matchesfashion, the online upmarket fashion retailer...

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Betaville Intelligence

UNCOOKED ALERT: Farfetch said to ... - Part 3

Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 9:55 am

It would appear little old Betaville's former employer, The Daily Telegraph, isn't just interested in takeover stories about the newspaper itself.

Slapped across the front page of today's business section is a scoop about how the founder of US-listed online fashion house Farfetch, Jose Neves, is weighing a take private of the business. Below is a link to the story, which boosted Farfetch's share by around 20pc:..

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Charlton Athletic backer said to be putting together multi-million pound bid for The Daily Telegraph, reveals The Sunday Times

Sunday, 22 October 2023, 10:26 am

Tucked away in The Sunday Times Prufrock column was an item that caught little old Betaville's eye.

The diary piece suggests Marc Boyan, a media entrepreneur that recently bought a stake in Charlton Atheltic football club, is interested in buying The Daily Telegraph. ..

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - the series returns

Thursday, 21 September 2023, 10:42 am

George Osborne's new podcast show - Political Currency - has received a lot of media attention but little old Betaville was more interested in another podcast the former Chancellor of the Exchequer was involved with recently.

That podcast was the BBC's media show in which interviewer Katie Razzall asks a punch of pundits about sale of the The Daily Telegraph, which as loyal readers well know used to be little old Betaville's former employer...

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Weekend review: BP and, er, that's it...

Monday, 18 September 2023, 12:59 pm

There weren't too many deal stories in the British Sunday newspaper sections this weekend but there was one piece that caught little old Betaville's eye in the Saturday business section of The Times.

Emma Powell, who writes the Tempus column in the The Times, suggested BP, which last week saw its chief executive Bernard Looney step down amid allegations, could now be vulnerable to a takeover bid. Below is a link to her piece:..

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