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Two of final three private equity firms failed to submit bids for entire division over worker worries
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CVC’s €4.5bn deal to buy brands such as PG Tips means it will also be responsible for plantations in Africa
Private equity group wins auction for division that has been hit by changing consumer tastes
...And it threatens to erode the high-risk, high-reward culture that CVC has prized, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Arash Massoudi write. At CVC, winners reap the rewards and losers suffer....
...Additional reporting by Arash Massoudi and Kaye Wiggins...
Division has weighed on the consumer goods company’s growth for several years
Rapid acquisitions are transforming the animal care sector but also prompting a political backlash
A deal by Swiss consumer group with private equity for North American business could be worth $4bn
...The details are chronicled in this Big Read by the FT’s Andres Schipani and Judith Evans and DD’s Kaye Wiggins. In the end, CVC’s €4.5bn offer was the only viable bid....
Deal will value Europe’s largest medical petcare company at €12.3bn and see EQT end plans for London listing
...The FT’s Arash Massoudi, Harriet Agnew and Judith Evans revealed on Sunday that the activist fund, which has pushed for change at several other large consumer companies over the past decade, has built a...
Private equity-backed group could become one of biggest UK IPOs in recent years
Funding round that includes Jay-Z’s Roc Nation values Swedish oat milk maker at roughly $2bn
...Judith McKenna, chief executive of Walmart International, told theFinancial Times: “We wanted to keep a stake in this because we believein the story to the upside, but equally we recognise that thisprobably...
...Additional reporting by Kaye Wiggins...
...DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Judith Evans dug deep in this Big Read....
...Catch up on all the details with DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Judith Evans here....
...When the property industry gathered at Claridge’s hotel in London this month to bid farewell to Mike Slade, chairman of the developer Helical, his successor as chief executive, Gerald Kaye, told the crowd...
...You can find the FT exclusive by Judith Evans and DD’s Arash Massoudi here. Now on to today’s main item . . . So please allow us to introduce you to a tiny west African oil producer called Lekoil....
...As the FT’s Judith Evans reports, some landlords are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst as they put in place contingency plans for potential vacancies....
...Gerald Kaye, chief executive, acknowledged “a background of some uncertainty in the UK real estate market and widespread debate as to whether the ‘property cycle’ has peaked or is merely pausing”....
...But given that the company is chaired by the respected property industry figure Mike Slade, and its chief executive is company veteran Gerald Kaye, investors should not write off the chances of returning...
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