London Stock Exchange to lose three more firms after takeover offers

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1. Tue, 1 September 2026

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   • The Guardian World10:08first to report
     London Stock Exchange to lose three more firms after takeover offers

     Latest purchases take value of deals to leave capital’s stock market this year past $100bn Three more London-listed companies are set to be taken over as the value of deals removing firms from the capital’s under-pressure stock market so far this year passes $100bn (£74bn). On Tuesday, Bodycote, the FTSE 250 industrials group that has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1972, agreed a £1.84bn takeover by the US private equity group Veritas. Continue reading...

   • The Guardian World16:56
     Private equity keeps picking off London-listed firms – and Westminster barely notices

     Bodycote is the latest FTSE 250 industrial company set to fall to an overseas bidder, despite the government’s talk of ‘reindustrialising’ The UK is in the business of “reindustrialising”, says the prime minister. If we are, an increasing portion of the activity will be under foreign ownership. Tuesday brought yet another overseas private equity swoop on a FTSE 250 industrial firm. This time it’s the Macclesfield-based Bodycote, which describes itself as “the world’s largest service provider of...