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  • Wood Group: Firm offloads two businesses as ‘strategic’ turnaround begins

    Energy

    Engineer Wood Group has sold two businesses for a total of $165m (£125m) after it revealed it slid into the red in the first half of the year. The London-listed firm, which is headquartered in Aberdeen, said today it has sold its stake in Ethos Energy Group, a joint venture with its partner, Siemens Energy [...]

    Wood Group has sold two businesses for a total of $165m
  • Revenue slides at Wood Group after Sidara snub but guidance kept

    Energy

    Engineer Wood Group maintained its full year guidance despite sliding into the red after a dip revenue in its first set of results since Emerati competitor Sidara pulled out of a deal for the firm at the eleventh hour. The Aberdonian firm, which generates much of its revenue providing engineering services to the oil and [...]

    The fresh 35p per share offer from Sidara is significantly less than a £1.5bn proposal it walked away from last year.
  • Wood bags six-year contract on Shell’s Prelude facility

    Energy

    Wood, headquarted in Aberdeen, said it would provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) solutions for the LNG facility.

    Shell's profits dropped in the first-quarter.
  • Wood Group engages with Sidara on latest takeover bid, extends offer deadline

    June 5, 2024

    Engineering and consulting company John Wood Group has said it is engaging with Sidara after the Dubai-based rival submitted a fourth and "final" bid for the FTSE 250 firm.

  • Wood Group mulls fourth and ‘final’ takeover bid from Dubai-based Sidara

    May 29, 2024

    Dubai-based engineering and consulting firm Sidara has submitted a fourth and "final" takeover proposal to Aberdeen-based rival John Wood Group.

  • Wood Group rejects latest takeover bid from Dubai-based suitor Sidara

    May 24, 2024

    Energy services firm Wood Group has rejected a third bid from Dubai-based suitor Sidara today on the grounds it “significantly “undervalues the firm.

  • Wood Group rejects second takeover offer from Dubai-based rival Sidara

    May 15, 2024

    Yesterday, Sidara hiked its initial offer of over £1.4bn, or 205p per share, by about three per cent to 212p per share.

  • Wood Group publishes upbeat trading update after rebuffing bid

    May 9, 2024

    Wood Group has published an upbeat trading update after it emerged the group had recieved a buyout offer.

  • Wood Group shares soar after engineering giant rejects takeover bid from Dubai-based rival

    May 8, 2024

    It said the board concluded that the offer "fundamentally undervalued Wood and its future prospects" and rejected it earlier today.

  • Leave London if UK markets are ‘unwilling or unable’ to engage, hedge fund tells Wood Group

    April 16, 2024

    In the letter, which City A.M. has also seen, Sparta said it has been a shareholder in Wood since "early 2022," and during that time, the fund has been "frustrated by the continued underperformance of the shares."

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