Johnston Press surges as DMGT said to plan bid for i newspaper
By Michele Maatouk
Date: Monday 12 Nov 2018
(Sharecast News) - Johnston Press surged on Monday following reports over the weekend that Daily Mail owner DMGT is planning on bidding for the i newspaper.
Johnston Press, which also owns the Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, announced last month that it was putting itself up for sale as it struggles to pay back a £220m bond due next June.
Sky News reported on Saturday that the bid from DMGT was at an early stage, but is expected to be lodged ahead of a deadline in the coming weeks set by Johnston's advisers at Rothschild.
In its half-year results at the end of August, the company posted a 10% decline in total revenue to £93m but said it swung to a pre-tax profit of £6.2m from a loss of £10.2m the year before. However, this was mostly due to a one-off accounting gain of £8.8m.
It said at the time that a strong performance from the i newspaper helped to mitigate the broader decline in revenues, with circulation revenues for the i up 17% and advertising revenues 20% higher.
At 0950 GMT, the shares were up 16.5% to 3.82p.
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