Atos rejects bid from rival for digital, big data, security units

Shape-shifting outsourcing biz Atos has rejected a joint bid of €4.2 billion ($4.09 billion) from tech consultancy Onepoint and Brit private equity fund ICG to buy its digital, big data and security divisions. The business unit, collectively branded as Evidian, is part of Atos's turnaround plan hatched by the board in June. …

[Pascal Monett]

"The Board of Directors has therefore decocted not to proceed"

Decocted ?

That doesn't sound like a Board of Directors. That sounds like a Board of Alchemists.

[WhatNext]

ATOS will accept when the price is right. Why split the company in two if not to sell half of it?