Posts tagged: the times
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 7:32 am
So, Everton Football Club isn't "for sale". Well, that is what sports hacks at The Times are reporting this morning.
According to the newspaper Farhard Moshiri, the Iranian businessman and large shareholder in Everton, was denying the possibility of a sale last night after The Guardian published its scoop. Below is a link to piece in today's The Times:..
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Friday, 30 December 2022, 5:56 pm
The venerable Financial Times splashed the entire edition of its British newspaper on a rather gloomy story about "a record fall" in dealmaking in the second quarter of this year. Below is the link:
https://www.ft.com/content/fe4f0017-8e41-44ae-85db-55b09157b379..
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Friday, 2 December 2022, 7:58 am
There are still a few old school British story-getting hacks operating in the London market and Dominic Walsh of The Times business section is one of them.
No surprises then that Dom has managed to dig out a line from an interview with Steve Richards, the boss of cinema chain Vue, about how he might be interested in combining Cineworld (or bits of it) with Vue...
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Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 8:04 am
Tucked away at the back of The Times stockmarket report is a little snippet suggesting London-listed defence company QinetiQ may be a takeover target.
Dominic Walsh, a veteran business hack on The Times, wrote the report, which suggests the QinetiQ shares moved higher yesterday on speculation of bid interest from "private equity and trade buyers"...
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Betaville IntelligenceFriday, 4 November 2022, 10:52 am
Russell "Russ" Hotten, veteran business hack, was kind enough to give little old Betaville a mention on the front page of The Times business section following National World's confirmation of its interest in bidding for Reach, publisher of The Daily Mirror.
Below is the link to the The Times piece and the official confirmation of yesterday's UNCOOKED Alert:..
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Wednesday, 2 November 2022, 11:01 pm
So, Betaville's old chum, Graham Ruddick, has lasted six months with his new newsletter Off to Lunch.
Graham "Ruddy" Ruddick was formerly deputy business editor on The Times and previously worked on the City desk at The Daily Telegraph with little old Betaville.
Now he has his own start up newsletter on Substack, a technology platform that allows writers and hacks to set up their own publications...
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Monday, 31 October 2022, 6:10 am
Tucked away in the middle of today's The Times business section is a rather intriguing piece by Rob Lea of The Times that suggests FTSE 250-listed buget airline easyJet may soon become a bid target.
The piece starts off with the suggestion that IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia, is keen on carrying out further consolidation of the European airline sector and that TAP, the Portuguese flag carrier, could be its next target...
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Thursday, 29 September 2022, 10:12 am
The M&A tipsters in the British national business press are out in force this week.
Yesterday, it was Bloomberg talking up the prospect of dealmaking, citing the likes of BT Group as a potential takeover target. Below is the link:..
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Betaville IntelligenceWednesday, 7 September 2022, 9:13 am
It would appear little old Betaville and Dom Walsh of The Times business section were barking up the right tree when it came to GB Group, the London-listed identity verification and fraud prevention company.
Late last night Chicago-based GTCR, which has appointed Jefferies to work on the bid, confirmed it is considering making an offer for GB Group. Below is the link the statement and also GB Group's response:..
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Betaville IntelligenceTuesday, 6 September 2022, 1:20 pm
Veteran business hack Dom Walsh of The Times has picked up on the latest Smith and Nephew takeover tale, too.
Dom - one of the best British business journalists Betaville has never had the pleasure of working with - published a piece in The Times today about how the medical devices company could be a takeover target for an American group, such as Stryker Corporation, or even a private equity firm...
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