RE: Countdown5 Nov 2022 23:49
For starters Rippers, got to get the bids going. Our reserve price is £200 exc Chin-ah.
So, who will bid me £150? No, anyone at £100? Come on, this is a company on the brink of many an inflection point… Let’s get started at £70. £60 I’m bid, and we’re off…. Don’t forget folks, you’ll also get a profitable diagnostics business and a CEO with a delightful collection of shumpers, £80, £100, £120, £140, back with you in the Takeda sweatshirt, £160 on the phone from Astra Zeneca, £180 from Takeda, new bidder BioNTech splashing some vaccine cash for a laugh, £200 and things are getting interesting, Takeda won’t let this go, £220… £240 from Astra Zeneca, BioNTech with a shake of the head and Takeda offer £250. Going once… going twice…. Sold! to the Japanese multinational…
Next lot… a couple of case loads of Avacta Delta variant LFDs. Who’ll get me started at 50p?