stellios comments5 Aug 2019 17:42
i think they need at least 70% to take this to the next stage and they get only so many offers. so the first offer hasnt worked, expect at least one more. easygroup hold 24.5%, polar capital have 5.9% and bennbridge ltd 5.2%.
so they have quite alot to do and as you would expect ICAMAP are highlighting poor results, need a new direction.
imagine if stellios had sold out easyjet, a huge, very successful business so i'm hoping its not all noise and he will hold out, certainly isnt desperate for the money, bet he is negociating a larger annual sum for the brand name??
The offer represents a 35 per cent premium on the company's closing price on Friday of 70.5p.
Easyhotel chairman Jonathan Lane said the offer is 'fair and reasonable' and would help the hotel chain accelerate its expansion into Europe.
But Haji-Ioannou has a different opinion: 'I find the offer from ICAMAP to be very low and I urge all other shareholders to take no action until the true value and future potential of Easyhotel can be evaluated.
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'It should be noted ICAMAP themselves paid 110p (per share) only 18 months ago and the stock has been as high as 128p just 15 months ago.'
Shares in Easyhotel jumped on the news, rising 34 per cent to 94.5p in morning trading. They have fallen by 18 per cent over the past year.
Harm Meijer, founding partner and managing director of ICAMAP, said the company needed 'a change in its shareholder base' in order to become 'a true leading pan-European budget hotel player.'
Easyhotel, which has 38 hotels in 10 countries, targets the low budget market, with rooms priced on average at around £70. It joined the stock market five years ago, listing at 80p a share.
In May, it revealed that sales jumped 25.3 per cent to £20.2million in the six months to March 31. But it slumped to a £124,000 pre-tax loss in the period due to the temporary closure of its hotel in London's Old Street, and depreciation.
Bosses had previously said they plan to open five new hotels by the end of the year and nine more by 2020, at a cost of £49million.
Easyhotel has grown rapidly in recent years, although it got caught up in the collapse of LateRooms last week