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Stelios leaves door open for easyJet sale
This is Money
9 January 2006
SHARES in easyJet leapt above £4 for the first time in three-and a half years today as founder and major shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou appeared to leave the door open to a takeover bid from the backers of Icelandair.
Amid further concerted buying of easyJet shares today, Haji-Ioannou told the Evening Standard: 'As the owner of the brand, I care who will be the licensee, but I just haven't done enough work to decide if the FL Group [the owner of Icelandair] would be OK or not.'
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