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Menzies - Shares double on the month

March 2022

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  • Epic Code:
  • MNZS
  • Price:
  • 564p
UK Plc is up for sale as companies recover from the pandemic: in the weeks since SCSW published its NAPS, Photo-Me received an offer from its chief executive; Lookers saw a 20% stake change at a 42% premium from a would-be predator; and now there has been an all cash offer for Menzies, the Edinburgh-based aviation services group, from NAS, subsidiary of freight and logistics group Agility Public Warehousing, at £559m or 510p a share, a 110% premium on last month. With the pandemic receding, Menzies initially played hardball. It rejected two lower offers, saying eight similar deals over the last decade were struck at an average 9.8x EBITDA against the 8.6x implied by NAS’s 510p offer. But NAS’s Kuwaiti state backers have deep pocke ...

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John Menzies plc is the holding company of Menzies Aviation plc, an aviation services business providing ground handling, cargo handling, cargo forwarding and into-plane fuelling, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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