Showing posts with label Hellman & Friedman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hellman & Friedman. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Argus Media Group appoints bankers to carry out sale of up to £1 billion - part 6

This is a bit of a wrinkle on a wrinkle but since little old Betaville broke the Argus Media Group sale story late last year I thought it might be worth airing the wrinkle here.

There have been a few reports since I "revealed" a couple of weeks ago that Argus Media's advisers were narrowing the field of bidders to three or four for the final round.

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Hellman & Friedman said to eye sale or float of Hostel World

I see from today's newspaper coverage there were a whole bunch of suitors for Lastminute.com, the online travel agent that was the icon of the dot com boom and bust in the late 90s/early noughties.

According to the Financial Times, Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz, Ctrip, eDreams and Oakley Capital were all keen on Lastminute.com. Here is a link to the FT piece: