Friday Papers: Hands plots £1bn Odeon sale – tips, comment and bids
Financial Times
* Terra Firma, the private equity firm run by Guy Hands, is putting the Odeon UCI cinema chain up for sale in a deal likely to be valued at between £700 million and £1 billion.
* Vodafone is to pay $5 billion to buy the Essar conglomerate out of the UK mobile phone group’s Indian business.
* Bwin, the Austria-based sportsbook specialist, and UK-based Party Gaming merged to create the world’s biggest listed online gambling company on Thursday.
* Taylor Wimpey has agreed the Read more [...]