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Royal Mail owner gets £4.5bn stake in French oil giant

Daniel Křetínský, the owner of Royal Mail, is poised to become TotalEnergies’s fourth biggest shareholder – David W Cerny/Reuters The billionaire owner of Royal Mail is to become one of the biggest shareholders in French oil giant TotalEnergies in a deal worth €5.1bn (£4.5bn). Daniel Křetínský is poised to become …

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Second-class post ‘will be cut to just three days a week if billionaire Daniel Kretinsky completes £3.5bn takeover of Royal Mail’

Second-class post will be cut to just three days a week if billionaire Daniel Kretinsky completes his £3.5billion takeover of Royal Mail, according to reports. The businessman, who has been nicknamed the ‘Czech Sphinx’ for his inscrutable nature, is planning on taking the UK’s 500-year-old postal service into full foreign ownership …

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Daniel Kretinsky buying West Ham stake is ‘precursor’ to full takeover, says Simon Jordan who compares situation to Stan Kroenke’s Arsenal buyout

After acquiring a 27% stake in West Ham United, it’s only a matter of time before Daniel Kretinsky takes complete control over the club. That’s according to talkSPORT’s Simon Jordan, who also compared the Czech billionaire’s Hammers swoop to how Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke started accumulating shares before eventually taking …

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