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kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers, but also hundreds of staff. today, octopus were confident that the takeover of bulb s customers would be smooth. octopus has got a great track record of bringing large numbers of customers across. so for, example, when avro failed it was the largest company to date we were able to look after those customers and staff pretty seamlessly, and i think with bulb, the experience we ve got means we re probably the natural choice. in total, 1.5 million bulb customers will move across to octopus. last november, the government had to bail out the firm with a £1.7 billion loan. but earlier this year, the independent office for budg
and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the deal means octopus will take on bulb s 1.5 million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb biggest green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november bulb went into administration. it was only kept going by the government which pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers and taxpayers but also hundreds of staff. today octopus were confident that the takeover of bulb s customers would be smith. octopus has great experience of bringing large numbers of customers across, so for example when the largest to date failed we were able to look after those customers and staff pretty seamlessly, and i think with bulb the experience we have got means we are probably the natural
members are on strike. and at 3.30pm on the bbc news channel, talking business with aaron heslehurst. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier 0ctopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means 0ctopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust.
the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means 0ctopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers but also hundreds of staff. today, 0ctopus were confident that the takeover of bulb s customers would be smooth. 0ctopus has got a great track record of bringing large numbers of customers across. so for, example, when avro failed it was the largest company to date we were able to look after those customers and staff pretty seamlessly, and i think with bulb, the experience we ve got means we re probably th