{"id":86056,"date":"2015-04-28T13:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86056"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:59:42","slug":"huge-group-in-acquisition-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/86056\/huge-group-in-acquisition-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Group in acquisition talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alt-X listed Huge Group has cautioned shareholders that it has entered into acquisition talks.<\/p>\n<p>In a cautionary announcement posted to the JSE&#8217;s SENS on Tuesday (28 April), the group said that it was in discussions regarding a &#8220;strategic acquisition&#8221; which could ultimately have an impact on the company&#8217;s securities.<\/p>\n<p>The company has said should a deal go forward, it would be put before shareholders, however it noted that the board of directors were in favour of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although no formal agreement nor offer is yet in place, the board of directors of Huge are supportive of the Proposed Acquisition,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Huge Group is an investment holding company, holding investments in subsidiary companies and a joint venture company operating in the telecommunications, media, technology and software industries<\/p>\n<p>By midday on the Alt-X, Huge Group&#8217;s shares were trading at R3.50 a share, giving it a market capitalisation of R388 million.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Huge Group<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Huge Group interim profit up\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/74542\/huge-group-interim-profit-up\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huge Group interim profit up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Huge Group in R10 million MTN legal settlement\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/68238\/huge-group-in-r10-million-mtn-legal-settlement\/\"><strong>Huge Group in R10 million MTN legal settlement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Huge Group earnings boosted by telecoms\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/59325\/huge-group-earnings-boosted-by-telecoms\/\"><strong>Huge Group earnings boosted by telecoms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alt-X listed Huge Group has cautioned shareholders that it has entered into acquisition talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[185,25,2258],"class_list":["post-86056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-acquisition","tag-active","tag-huge-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86058,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86056\/revisions\/86058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}