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Eco-tycoon Vince in contemporary effort to spark Observer sale talks

By Editorial Board Published December 9, 2024 4 Min Read
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Eco-tycoon Vince in contemporary effort to spark Observer sale talks

The entrepreneur Dale Vince has made a contemporary method to the proprietor of The Guardian in a bid to influence it to open talks with him about The Observer, days after its sale was agreed to a digital start-up.

Mr Vince, who had held talks with the Guardian Media Group chair, Charles Gurassa, previous to final week’s affirmation of The Observer’s sale to Tortoise Media, wrote to Mr Sunde: “I am ready to engage with your team if you are serious.

“I do not think about you anticipate a blind bid, or would take one significantly, [and] a dialogue on the numbers subsequently could be the precise beginning place. Is that attainable?”

“Broadly talking my intentions for the Observer match your individual; I am a fan and a reader and a believer in media pluralism.

“I operate a group of companies that made £38m last year on roughly £500m of turnover – all operating in the green economy.

“The Observer clearly wants a digital presence as a way to stand alone, I consider the print model is important to take care of – and the Guardian subscriber mannequin is I consider the precise method.”

Mr Vince, who has based a string of inexperienced vitality companies and owns Forest Inexperienced Rovers Soccer Membership, is known to have written to Mr Sunde after the Scott Belief chair was requested by The Sunday Instances whether or not he would nonetheless think about promoting to a rival to Tortoise Media.

“Of course, at any time in the process, you would listen to people coming to talk to you,” Mr Sunde informed The Sunday Instances.

“And we will listen, as we have done with all the different bidders that have come.”

“Our position hasn’t changed and we are still not in a position to have discussions with other interested parties,” Mr Sunde informed the entrepreneur.

“You are the only person who has addressed us, revealing your identity and intentions.”

A GMG spokeswoman confirmed on Monday that the corporate remained in unique discussions with Tortoise Media, having stated final Thursday that it anticipated a proper sale settlement to be signed inside days.

The Scott Belief has pledged to take a position £5m into Tortoise Media in trade for a stake and a board seat, in an try and placate livid Guardian and Observer journalists.

Final week, they went on strike for 2 days in protest on the sale.

One supply stated that the obvious combined messaging from GMG and the Scott Belief raised necessary questions on company governance on the two organisations, and stated the “fiasco” would put severe strain on the organisations’ management.

Paul Webster, who till final month was The Observer’s editor, accused Mr Sunde of failing to seek the advice of him or colleagues on the paper in regards to the sale.

If the cope with Tortoise Media completes, it is going to see The Observer in new possession for the primary time for the reason that early Nineteen Nineties.

GMG and the Scott Belief declined to remark past confirming the accuracy of Mr Sunde’s quotes in The Sunday Instances.

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