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  • Pleased as Punch: Debts down and profits up after sale of pubs

    September 2, 2015

    Punch Taverns said yester­day it was back on track, announcing a four per cent increase in average profits. Last week, it said it was calling time on 153 “non-core” pubs in a £53.5m deal with investment trust New River Retail, with the proceeds to be used to reduce debt. This will allow the company to [...]

  • Prezzo share price reacts as bidders offer £316m for a slice of Italian food chain

    October 2, 2014

    Italian high street restaurant chain Prezzo yesterday confirmed that it had received preliminary proposals for a potential takeover offer. Although Prezzo cautioned that any deal was unlikely to be at a premium to its closing price on Wednesday of 135p per share, or around £316m. Shares in Prezzo yesterday jumped as much as 11 per [...]

  • Punch founder in £37m Strada restaurant deal

    September 28, 2014

    HUGH Osmond, the entrepreneur behind Pizza Express, Punch Taverns and the insurance group Pearl, has bought the Strada chain of Italian restaurants in a £37m deal. Sun Capital Partners, Osmond’s private equity vehicle, is buying the Strada brand and 43 restaurants from the Tragus Group in a deal announced yesterday. Osmond said his plan for [...]

  • Phoenix rises and sets sights on £100bn of UK acquisition opportunities

    August 21, 2014

    Insurer Phoenix is understood to be looking at £100bn worth of potential acquisition opportunities in the UK, following a promising set of half-year results announced yesterday.    The group is also seeking an investment-grade credit rating that it expects will reduce the cost of its debt by around 50 basis points and give it access [...]

  • McColl’s kicks off retail IPOs with plan for £50m stock market float

    January 27, 2014

    CONVENIENCE store group McColl’s is set to jump the queue of retailers preparing to join the stock market after confirming plans yesterday to float next month. The retailer, which owns 1,276 newsagents and convenience stores, wants to raise £50m in a main market listing that is expected to value the group at around £225m. McColl’s [...]

  • Osmond quits Phoenix after eight years

    August 22, 2013

    HUGH Osmond yesterday quit the board of the closed book life insurer he founded eight years ago, signalling an end to a lengthy – and not always easy – association with the industry. Osmond, the co-founder of Pizza Express, began building up Pearl in 2005, making a series of costly acquisitions. After struggling with a [...]

  • Phoenix rises again after £250m share issue

    January 30, 2013

    LIFE insurer Phoenix yesterday unveiled plans to raise £250m in a share issue, enabling it to pay down some of its £2.4bn debt pile and raising the prospect of a return to the acquisition market. Chief executive Clive Bannister said the deal – first disclosed in yesterday’s City A.M. – transforms Phoenix by removing the [...]

  • Phoenix in £250m share placing

    January 30, 2013

    Phoenix Group Holdings, the closed life assurance funds group created by entrepreneur Hugh Osmond, this morning confirmed plans to raise £250m in a share placing. The placing will enable the firm to reduce its debt pile, from £2.36bn to £1.85bn, as part of a major restructuring. Phoenix declared a final dividend of 26.7p a share, [...]

  • Phoenix close to deal with its banking group

    January 29, 2013

    PHOENIX Group Holdings, the closed life assurance funds group created by entrepreneur Hugh Osmond , is said to be close to a breakthrough in its talks with its banking group over the extension of its £2.5bn of gross debt. According to sources, the group is close to announcing an equity issue that will enable some [...]

  • Ocado investors prop up £36m capital raising

    November 19, 2012

    OCADO’S shareholders ploughed more money into the online grocery chain yesterday to support a £36m placing that will keep the firm financially stable for at least 18 months. Existing shareholders including Jorn Rausing of the Tetra Pak dynasty and Ocado’s management team took up around 19 per cent of the shares placed, in line with [...]

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