{"id":168693,"date":"2019-10-18T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=258796"},"modified":"2019-10-18T19:49:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:49:39","slug":"united-group-tipped-as-winner-in-vivacom-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/18\/united-group-tipped-as-winner-in-vivacom-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"United Group tipped as winner in Vivacom takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tNetherlands-based United Group appeared to have won the race to acquire Bulgarian operator Vivacom, which was put up for sale in July [1] following a lengthy ownership battle.<\/p>\n<p>Financial Times (FT) reported United Group could finalise a takeover within a fortnight, though Bulgarian weekly Capital stated it was already a done deal. FT stated Vivacom was expected to be valued at around \u20ac1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper in September reported United Group was one of two companies which submitted indicative bids [2] for Vivacom, alongside Providence Equity. The deal would strengthen United Group&#8217;s presence in the Balkans, adding to operations in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>United Group is majority owned by UK private equity company BC Partners, with KKR holding a minority stake. The operator has acquired about 100 companies in the Balkans, FT stated.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal is finalised, it would mark the sixth change of Vivacom ownership since it was privatised in 2004.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/bulgaria-operator-vivacom-for-sale\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/bulgarias-vivacom-attracts-two-bidders\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands-based United Group appeared to have won the race to acquire Bulgarian operator Vivacom, which &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/united-group-tipped-as-winner-in-vivacom-takeover\/\">United Group tipped as winner in Vivacom takeover<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/18\/united-group-tipped-as-winner-in-vivacom-takeover\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":787,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6968,2,2185,6147,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-HSR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}