International Distributi... Takeover Rumours (IDS)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2025/jan/30/ofcom-delivers-relief-for-royal-mail-at-snails-pace-too-late-to-stop-czech-takeover

Gentlemen, I have no idea as to why those who govern us should have allowed the Universal Service Obligation to hang utterly ineffectually over the entire transaction. I guess that the CWU wanted it to stay so they could negotiate some extra dough for them; and the politicians yielded. Elsewhere that incomprehensibly meretricious clot Alex Brummer of the Daily Mail claimed that the IDS takeover should not be permitted since IDS is 508 years old. That is not all: Brummer claimed that the bidder was so burdened by debt that trouble would befall the bidder. Deary Deary Me. Live Ink PS: When do shareholders receive the cash?

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I'm surprised there's been no mention on here of IDS spending £62m purchasing a 20% stake in ACS Surely the substantial expenditure on an acquisition such as this makes no sense at all whist in the midst of a takeover bid? The only person who's going to potentially benefit from this outlay and investment will be the new owner DK if the takeover goes ahead.

This Government are in Cuckoo Land. Whilst they hand out rises willy nilly to the Public Sector by putting up costs for businesses they then expect those businesses to cap their costs! Where do they think these massive rises in Employee Costs are gonna come from? They are just detached from reality! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/03/labour-czech-sphinx-cap-stamp-prices-royal-mail-takeover/

isis, I think that you will therefore agree with me that downsizing by merely raising the cost of a first class stamp to £1.65 but keeping the USO would be absurd. I incline to the view that, regardless of what the CWU think, the obligations of IDS will be brought into line with economic possibility and that the takeover price will go up from 370p to rather more than 400p - perhaps getting on for 500p. Live Ink

Just a quick question for my learned friends on here, do I still need to have voted on the takeover in a couple of days time or has the vote been suspended. Thanks in anticipation.

The deadline has apparently been extended to March 2025 Further to our previous communication, we have received an update regarding the International Distribution Services plc takeover event. The deadline to submit your elections by has been extended to 26 March 2025.