{"id":110968,"date":"2014-10-01T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=110968"},"modified":"2014-10-01T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T08:47:00","slug":"blue-label-considering-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/110968-blue-label-considering-acquisition.html","title":{"rendered":"Blue Label considering acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Label Telecoms has announced that it is considering an offer to be fully acquired.<\/p>\n<p>The telecoms group, a distributor of pre-paid vouchers and other mobile services, said that it has received a \u201cnon-binding expression of interest\u201d from an unnamed company for the acquisition of all its issued shares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe board is engaged in discussions with the party expressing interest and will update shareholders whenever appropriate,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The company added, however, that the non-binding nature of the discussions does not constitute a firm intention to make any offer \u2013 and it is possible that no offer may result from the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, pending further announcements, shareholders are advised to exercise caution when dealing in Blue Label shares,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Blue Label reported an 8% rise in its dividend per share to 27 cents for the period ended May 2014, on the back of a rise in profits.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue improved to R19.4 billion, from R18.98 billion before, while group operating profit was up to R723 million, from R646 million in 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Blue Label<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/84749-blue-label-takes-a-mexican-knock.html\">Blue Label takes a Mexican knock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/43995-blue-label-wants-r3-7bn-from-telkom.html\">Blue Label wants R3.7bn from Telkom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/32412-blue-label-bread-to-airtime-campaign.html\">Blue Label bread to airtime campaign<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Label Telecoms has announced that it is considering an offer to be fully acquired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11405,36,19967],"class_list":["post-110968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-acquisition","tag-active","tag-blue-label-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}