Currys board should play hardball with opportunistic bidders | Nils Pratley

Electricals retailer is worth more than US hedge fund Elliott’s offer and should look for close to £1bnCurrys shares soar as Chinese retailer enters takeover battleIt’s a long time since anybody described Currys, or Dixons as it was in a former incarnation, as a jewel of the London stock market. The electricals retailer was relegated from the FTSE 100 index as long ago as 2017, soon after its foolish value-destroying merger with Carphone Warehouse. These days it exists in that