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- Ashley Armstrong, Business Editor
DIRECT LINE has accepted a £3.6billion takeover offer from rival Aviva in a move that will create a home and car insurance giant.
Aviva sweetened its characterize to 275p-a-half the day previous after two previous offers had been rejected.
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Its first gambit at 250p-a-half had been brushed off by Allege Line’s board as “opportunistic”.
Then again, investors and analysts believed Allege Line would be under tension to put up to a swoop, as a turnaround of the struggling insurer came with risks and would require patience.
The takeover cuts immediate unique boss Adam Winslow’s overhaul efforts, after he finest joined in March from Aviva, which is now buying the business he moved to.
The forty five-300 and sixty five days-dilapidated has 516,175 shares in Allege Line which will be price £1.5million on the takeover impress.
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He has a extra 2 million shares, price yet any other £5.5million from the Aviva deal, that had been awarded, ironically, when he forfeited awards from his previous employer.
As one wag on social media said: “He gained’t must bother about his car insurance renewal going up”.
A takeover will obtain Aviva stronger in car insurance, with Allege Line the UK’s second finest provider of motorist premiums behind Admiral.
It will also give the combined business 15 per cent half of the home insurance market.
Analysts quiz it will must buckle down and do regulator and Bank of England approvals.
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The lender’s mortgage chief, Amanda Bryden, predicted “costs will defend rising gradually next 300 and sixty five days.”
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