{"id":294335,"date":"2025-04-30T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/royal-mail-takeover-by-czech-billionaire-approved-by-shareholders\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:02:07","slug":"royal-mail-takeover-by-czech-billionaire-approved-by-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/royal-mail-takeover-by-czech-billionaire-approved-by-shareholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved by shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/cf57\/live\/601e0ed0-25e0-11f0-bd2b-47815eb0df33.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved by shareholders\" title=\"Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved by shareholders\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The sale of Royal Mail&#8217;s parent company to a Czech billionaire has been cleared by shareholders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The approval of the \u00a33.6bn deal, first proposed a year ago, will see the 500-year institution taken over by Daniel Kretinsky&#8217;s EP Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Just over 80% of the shareholders of International Distribution Services (IDS), Royal Mail&#8217;s owner, voted in favour of the takeover on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Kretinksy said &#8220;the pathway to success for IDS lies in taking a truly long-term view of the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy4v5w1xd80o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of Royal Mail&#8217;s parent company to a Czech billionaire has been cleared by shareholders. The approval of the \u00a33.6bn deal, first proposed a year ago, will see the 500-year institution taken over by Daniel Kretinsky&#8217;s EP Group. Just over 80% of the shareholders of International Distribution Services (IDS), Royal Mail&#8217;s owner, voted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/cf57\/live\/601e0ed0-25e0-11f0-bd2b-47815eb0df33.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[15793,21816,59734,22533,2923,1553,1290],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294337,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294335\/revisions\/294337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}