City sounds alarm on £40bn foreign M&A offensive targeting ‘cheap’ UK firms Markets A group of City grandees has sounded the alarm on the wave of foreign firms picking off rivals from London’s stock market, after a flurry of unsolicited offers took the combined value of UK companies poised to leave Britain’s ailing bourse to £43bn. Some 22 listed companies have already accepted or received bids that would [...]
Intertek to bow to pressure on £10bn private equity takeover Markets FTSE 100 giant Intertek is poised to accept a £10bn takeover offer from a Swedish private equity firm after months of uncertainty, in what would be a huge blow to the London Stock Exchange. The testing and quality assurance firm said on Wednesday morning that it “would be minded” to recommend the latest offer from [...]
Nelson Peltz’s son calls for Intertek to engage with £10bn offer Markets Matt Peltz, the son of billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz, has called on FTSE 100 testing firm Intertek to accept the latest £10bn offer by a Swedish private equity firm, as investors clash over whether the board should sell up. The buyout firm submitted its fourth offer on Tuesday morning, which valued shares at £60 [...]
Investors urge FTSE-100 Intertek to resist takeover pressure May 10, 2026 Major shareholders in FTSE 100 giant Intertek are urging the firm to hold its nerve as a Swedish private equity firm circles. Investors in the quality assurance and product testing business who account for close to £300m of the firm’s value told CityAM it is undervalued by the latest offer, which stands at £8.9bn [...]
FTSE 100’s Intertek rejects sweetened £10bn bid from EQT May 8, 2026 Board of the testing firm unanimous is saying 5,800p price tag ‘undervalues’ the group FTSE 100 constituent Intertek has rejected the latest bid for the testing company from Swedish private equity firm EQT, saying the £10bn, 5,800p-per-share offer “significantly undervalues” the group. Friday’s rebuttal was the third consecutive knock-back, following previous cash offers at 5,150p [...]
Intertek shares rocket as Swedish private equity firm hikes bid for the company May 5, 2026 Shares in laboratory testing company Intertek rocketed in morning trading on Tuesday after Swedish private equity firm EQT launched a fresh £8.9bn bid for the company. The stock jumped 7.4 per cent to £51.61p, with shares up 13.3 per cent since the start of the year, after the Swedish firm proposed its third offer to [...]
Mark Kleinman: AA float needs smart pricing to avoid breakdown May 29, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly CityAM column Here’s a candidate for toughest IPO mandate in the City: return the venerable AA, the UK’s biggest breakdown recovery service, to the public markets roughly five years after it was taken private for a fraction of [...]
Intertek reports revenue growth as companies put a bigger focus on quality, safety and sustainability March 5, 2024 Laboratory testing group Intertek is riding its highest like-for-like revenue posting in a decade