back to article Major Colt Group investor bids to take sickly biz private again

Fidelity, the majority shareholder in LSE-listed telecoms biz Colt Group, has bid 190 pence per share to buy the remaining stock and take the ailing firm private. The proposed transaction equates to a 21 per cent premium on yesterday’s closing share price and is 34 per cent up on the rolling average for the past twelve months …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Oh how I chuckle.

    "The board at Colt mulled the offer with investment banker Barclays and reckons it “undervalues” the business."

    Clearly they are not a customer of Colt's. A complete shambles , right from pre-sales through installation to support.

    We're migrating a huge amount of business away from them, as piss up's and breweries spring to mind.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Oh how I chuckle.

      Have they ever considered that the board was the problem?

      Since the Rackesh has been CEO the business has gone down hill faster Lance Armstrong cycling down the Alps.

      As you say " couldn't arrange a piss up in a brewery"

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