Axel Springer strikes £575m deal to buy Telegraph titles Media German media giant Axel Springer has agreed a £575m deal to acquire Telegraph Media Group, ending years of uncertainty over the future ownership of one of Britain’s most influential newspaper publishers. The all-cash agreement will see the Berlin-based publisher – which owns Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Die Welt – take control of the Daily [...]
Redbird pulls out of deal for The Telegraph Media Redbird has pulled out of its £500m bid to buy the Daily Telegraph in a move that will plunge the broadsheet into further uncertainty and leaves the paper without a long-term owner for more than two-and-a-half years. The US private equity giant had been the sole buyer willing to stump up the half a billion-pound [...]
US bidder Dovid Efune set to buy Telegraph for £550m next week Media Dovid Efune, the owner of the New York Sun, is reportedly on the verge of buying The Daily Telegraph and its Sunday title for £550m, with signs a deal could be inked as early as next week. This weekend, Efune was engaged in advanced discussions with Redbird IMI, the current proprietor of the British broadsheet, although [...]
Media mogul Conrad Black reportedly set to back US bid for The Telegraph September 12, 2024 Lord Conrad Black, the media tycoon who owned The Daily Telegraph for nearly two decades, may be set to return to the British broadsheet. Black has been floated as a potential backer of a bid for The Telegraph, led by Dovid Efune, owner of The New York Sun, according to Sky News. One insider suggested [...]
Telegraph sale: Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi hunts backers for £600m bid July 22, 2024 Zahawi is said to be confident he can submit a competitive bid and wants to boost the Telegraph's profitability by expanding in the US.