{"id":825,"date":"2026-05-13T12:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:39:39","slug":"lab-testing-group-intertek-to-back-10-6bn-takeover-by-swedish-firm-eqt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Lab testing group Intertek to back \u00a310.6bn takeover by Swedish firm EQT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTSE 100 business \u2018minded to recommend\u2019 \u00a360-a-share tilt from company owned by billionaire Wallenberg family<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/13\/uk-bond-market-yields-political-turmoil-oil-inflation-housing-market-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The laboratory testing company Intertek has become the latest FTSE 100 business to agree to a takeover, backing a \u00a310.6bn approach from a private equity firm owned by Sweden\u2019s billionaire Wallenberg family.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/nils-pratley-on-finance\/2026\/may\/05\/stock-markets-are-wobbling-but-10bn-cash-bids-at-fat-premiums-can-still-happen\">rebuffing three previous approaches<\/a>, Intertek\u2019s board said it was \u201cminded to recommend\u201d the \u00a360-a-share tilt from the Swedish buyout firm EQT to shareholders, if there is a firm offer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/13\/lab-testing-group-intertek-to-back-takeover-by-swedish-firm-eqt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTSE 100 business \u2018minded to recommend\u2019 \u00a360-a-share tilt from company owned by billionaire Wallenberg family Business live \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}