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So you think Fosun will bid 25p ish, well they cannot buy the airline side so will have to do a deal with the rest. But tcg will sell the airline side first which will pay off some / all debt so if that happens you think the correct sp will be what 20p and then Fosun will buy the rest for 25p.
Get real , even if Fosun bid that low why would the bod's sell the company and their jobs for 25p ish they will not , but if the offer was 75p -£1 + then thats different.

I guess that the current bod's would prefer to keep their jobs, so any / all bids will have to be condisered and recommended to the shareholders first.
All the airline bids will be agreed at a price but any takeover will either be supported by the bod's and in that case the offer price would need to seen as a good return for the shareholders and somewhere say £1+. If not agreed with the bod's the Fosun bid will go hostile and could be more if they want to get the business away from other bidders.

Sorry guys wrong board. I have these as well.

I guess that the current bod's would prefer to keep their jobs, so any / all bids will have to be condisered and recommended to the shareholders first.
All the airline bids will be agreed at a price but any takeover will either be supported by the bod's and in that case the offer price would need to seen as a good return for the shareholders and somewhere say £1+. If not agreed with the bod's the Fosun bid will go hostile and could be more if they want to get the business away from other bidders.

Goodness another shorter pops his / her head up against the flow of action.
If you have shorts you better close them or fill them.

Are trying to buy tcg at an untrue value, what are we about 20p but when we sell off the airline business and pay down debt we should have a true sp value of 50p -60p, so fof Fosun to get their hands on tcg and then have to pay a lot higher say £1 - £1.50

With all that's going on I guess we are still in a closed period so NO directors are able to buy shares with inside info.
Shame but if had put some of their own faith behind the company and bought big volumes a little while ago they could be looking at making a lot , when they must now know that the sp will / could soon be £1+

So what a great position to be in with so many different bids, and when all the bidders know many others are bidding.
unfortunately this will add time in decideing just who to sell the parts to, will tcg get a better price by selling all the tourist business to fosun or sell the parts without the Nordic business side. ?
Wouldn't many other companies want to be in tcg place. We could get £1+ this way.

Sorry, you just beat me to it.

Thomas Cook Group notes media reports regarding a potential offer for its tour operator business from Fosun International
Limited ("Fosun"), the group's largest shareholder. Thomas Cook confirms that it is in discussions with Fosun following
receipt of a preliminary approach.
There can be no certainty that this approach will result in a formal offer. However, the Board will consider any potential
offer alongside the other strategic options that it has, with the aim of maximising value for all its stakeholders.
The Company will make a further announcement as appropriate.
ENDS
About Thomas Cook Group Plc.
Thomas Cook Group plc. is one of the world's leading leisure travel groups, with sales of £9.6 billion in the year ended 30
September 2018. It is supported by 21,000 employees and has 200 own-brand hotels. It operates from 16 source markets
and serves over 22 million customers annually. Thomas Cook Group plc's shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange
(TCG).
In 2018, Thomas Cook's Tour Operator reported revenues of £7,394 million with underlying EBIT of £161 million.

Who the hell is fuson, don't you mean Fosun ?
It's no good posting if you don't know what you are talking about. to start with. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It looks to many that Fosun must be getting desperate to buy the tcg tourist business and to do it ASAP while the sp is so low, but why would tcg sell that side of the business before they sell off the airline side.
Everyone knows that when they sell the airlines side they could be looking at about £1bn to pay off much / some of their debt, and once that is done TCG will then look like a much better profitable business and should / could have a sp of 60p- 80p as it stands.
Then and only then will the bod’s look at doing a deal unless the Fosun people agree with TCG a price up front that both sides think is right and that could / should be £1- £1.50. If they do that then they will / could take the bid for the Northern Europe off the table as a separate deal.
It’s all to play for.

First of all we don't know if this articel from sky about Fosun is correct but let's hope so as they have been on the ball about other things so far.
Second if Fosun are interested in the total tcg travel business less the airline side I guess Fosun were / are not happy that the Northern Europe business could be bought by someone else under Fosun's noise, I guess it's about speed.
Thomas Cook Group confirms that it has received a highly preliminary and unsolicited indicative offer from Triton Partners for its Northern Europe business, comprising its tour operator and airline in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
It must be very difficult for tcg to have too many bidders what do they do. let's sell the lot for £2.50 a share

Who cares how much they lose, they haven't given a fig to all us long termers that have lost thousands on paper so far.
This was trading at about £1.50 last year and once they sell off the airline side and end up with a new slim line profitable business there is no reason why tcg shouldn't be looking for £1. -£1.50 a share. Just look at all the hotels thy will have in 6 months.

Could be very good news indeed, as many of us have said for a while now. Once tcg have sold off all/ part of the airline business for what £800m - £1bn pushing the sp up to say 50p- 60p then Fosun would come in with their takeover bid, I would imagine that tcg would be looking for £1 - £1.50 a share to agree a deal and that shouldn't be too far off.
Hold tight guys & girls this should start to move.

Yes we don't seem to be making any progress at all, cannot sell any brands either not wanted or cannot get the price. don't seem to be able to launch any big new products the market wants, don't seem to be able to attract any new board members on long term basis.
But they are able to keep giving the current staff / bod's big cheap/ free shares as part of their salaries.
I have sold half my holding at almost break even to try something else as we seem to be stuck around the 34p -40p mark for 1-2 years with no real prospects.

I guess the next news could be the trading up-date normall due about the end of July, by then maybe the bod's will have done the deal / deals for the airlines and they could announce better cash flow and new plans all in 1 go.
Until then nothing has so far been re jected and that must be good news, so all the time the sp is making slow progress and moves back up to say 20p+ we should do very well when all the good news comes out.

As time moves on there seems to be less & less interest in vog in general and less and less posts, many of the long termers have had their stuffing and positiveness blown out of them by untruths and no future in sight.
Many of the new investors have seen the light and it's not good and now see any prospects of making any money or even getting any of their own money back as what maybe 100 x1.
Just where does this go without more customers and more money, the whole lot could be sold for a 1p to someone still ready to gamble for a long term / 10 year project. very sad indeed.

It's a very sorry stae of affairs when any companies share price drops from highs of what £2-£5 down to 10p or lower and many share holders through no fault of their own end up losing lots of money and I feel for all of them.
But that was the past and it's no good always harping on about it to try and get one's own back to speak.
However many including myself bought into cwd at the time of the placing or just after and should stand a good chance of making some money at some point, and that's why many on here are more positive than yourself and I guess we will all find out in the next 6-9 months.

It's a very sorry stae of affairs when any companies share price drops from highs of what £2-£5 down to 10p or lower and many share holders through no fault of their own end up losing lots of money and I feel for all of them.
But that was the past and it's no good always harping on about it to try and get one's own back to speak.
However many including myself bought into cwd at the time of the placing or just after and should stand a good chance of making some money at some point, and that's why many on here are more positive than yourself and I guess we will all find out in the next 6-9 months.