A marketing conglomerate listed in London which dismissed three of its senior executives this week was approached from a break of 200 million pounds Sterling.
Sky News has learned that the next 15 have held talks about the sale of its “inherited” assets, who include the MHP Public Relations Financial Agency, with an anonymous tenderer.
This would leave the company’s rump focused on data -based customers and customer companies.
A source from the industry said the potential buyer would be an investment capital company.
The next 15th have issued a profit warning and changed his leadership this week because he revealed a “potential serious fault” linked to Mach49, an advisory company in Silicon Valley he has.
“Consequently, the next 15th ended the employment of three members of the high management of Mach49-Linda Yates, Russ Lampert and Paul Holland. David Charpie, currently co-PDG of Mach49, will become on Wednesday by the single CEO,” he said in a scholarship statement on Wednesday.
“The next 15, in the name of Mach49, are reporting questions to the law enforcement organizations concerned.
“It is too early to know the result, but the next 15 will guarantee that complete cooperation is provided to these agencies.”
The company, which has a market value of approximately 210 million pounds sterling after having seen its shares collapse by almost 75% in the past year.
He also announced this week that Tim Dyson, its managing director for more than three decades, would retire and would be replaced by Sam Knights, the boss of Shopper Media Group, a subsidiary of the next 15.
A person close to the next 15 insisted that any potential breakdown would reflect the “simplification strategy” to which he had publicly alluded.
The next 15 have refused to comment on the approach of some of its assets, which are also supposed to include the creative agency Elvis and Outcast, another public relations firm.