PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones)–Following the failure of the proposed marriage between M6 and TF1, the German media group Bertelsmann has requested indicative offers by Friday for the 48.3% stake it holds in M6, reports the Financial Times on Thursday. “We are ‘testing the market’. It is on the basis of this test that we will decide whether to sell or not,” confirmed Thomas Rabe, the managing director of Bertelsmann, to the British media.
Contacted by Agefi-Dow Jones, a spokesperson for M6 declined to comment.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the British outlet reports that this stake in France’s second largest private television group is attracting the greed of a large number of potential buyers, including some of the most important billionaires in the media sector in Europe. .
The Financial Times mentions the interest of a consortium of major French entrepreneurs, including Rodolphe Saadé, Stéphane Courbit and Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière.
Among the other businessmen studying the case, the FT also cites Silvio Berlusconi, Vincent Bolloré, Daniel Kretinsky and Patrick Drahi.
At 12:30 p.m., the M6 share gained 5.8% to 13.28 euros on the Paris market, resulting in its rise TF1 which jumped 5.84% to 6.7 euros. The two values are thus ranked at the top of the SBF 120.
Vincent Alsuar, Agefi-Dow Jones; +33 (0)1 41 27 47 39; [email protected] ed: ECH
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