{"id":424030,"date":"2026-04-29T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424030\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:09:12","slug":"dcc-shares-surge-on-takeover-approach-that-may-push-valuation-towards-e8bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424030\/","title":{"rendered":"DCC shares surge on takeover approach that may push valuation towards \u20ac8bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Sale would justify firm exiting its healthcare and tech distribution businesses\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DCC owns retail forecourts, operated under the Certa brand in Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8ba6281a-6354-48e1-bff0-e116035447cf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">DCC owns retail forecourts, operated under the Certa brand in Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish energy distributor DCC could be valued at \u00a37bn (\u20ac8bn), folowing a joint approach made by investment giants KKR and Energy Capital Partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The average share premium on three other takeover approaches so far this year for companies listed on the FTSE 100 is 39pc, according to Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sale would justify firm exiting its healthcare and tech distribution businesses DCC owns retail forecourts, operated under the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,37635,61,3938,60,10099],"class_list":["post-424030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-energy-crisis","tag-ie","tag-investments","tag-ireland","tag-john-mulligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}