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Acquisitions News: 2000

Mon, 03 Jul 2000: WSP Group has acquired Cantor Seinuk Group the New York-based structural engineer for £7.9m in its first move into the US...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: Hall & Woodhouse has bought King & Barnes the Horsham-based brewery and pubs group for undisclosed terms and the brewery is expected to be clo...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: Britten-Norman the Isle of Wight-based aircraft manufacturer has been bought out of receivership by two investors from Oman for undisclosed terms...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: Standard Chartered is to acquire banking group Grindlays from its Australian parent ANZ for £823m in order to become the leading international b...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: Rodamco is to acquire Scottish Metropolitan Property for £152m in order to increase its investment in the retail and industrial property markets...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: BAE Systems is to acquire the US-based control systems business of Lockheed Martin for £320m and is also interested in a number of electronics o...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: Atlantic Telecom is to acquire First Telecom for £520m and plans to spend £100m expanding First Telecom's DSL network in Germany. ...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: Bupa has announced a £230m agreed takeover bid for Community Hospitals Group in order to become the UK's largest operator of private hospit...
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000: Metal Bulletin has acquired Atalink the publisher of annual titles for trade associations for £13m...
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000: Invensys has sold Westinghouse Brakes the rail industry supplier to Germany's Knorr-Bremse for £65m...
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000: Perkin Elmer has sold its Cambridge-based healthcare imaging division to a management buy-out for £0.8m in order to focus on life sciences....
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000: Currie European Transport the Dumfries-based independent road haulage firm has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms...
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000: Greencore of Ireland has acquired Williams Rodgers Foods the dried fruit manufacturer based in Kirkby-in-Ashfield for undisclosed terms. ...
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000: Ingenta has announced the reverse takeover of Aim-listed investment vehicle Delyn and will raise £3m in a share placing in order to fund the exp...
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000: Caradon is planning to acquire Columbia the US aluminium extruder company for £75m and has also announced plans to put its bathroom equipment an...
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000: Harvey Nash is to acquire TechPartners International for an initial £15m in order to expand its US recruitment business...
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000: Barclays has sold its Dial car leasing business to ABN Amro for £269m in order to withdraw from the rapidly consolidating market....
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000: Wolseley is selling a number of manufacturing businesses to Cinven for up to £136m including agricultural industrial motor cable and photographi...
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000: Photobition the supplier of graphics displays has acquired four former Wace businesses in the US from Applied Graphics Technologies for £7.3m...
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000: Momentus the London-based e-consultancy is being acquired by Diamond Technology Partners of the US for £6.2m...
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