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Acquisitions News: 2001

Mon, 03 Dec 2001: The property company Marylebone Warwick Balfour, which owns the Liberty department store as well as serviced offices and hotels, is to make 90 people ...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Hanson's brick business is back on the market after a breakdown in negotiations with private-equity group, Doughty Hanson....
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Invensys has hired JP Morgan to sell the company's flow-control business with sales of £500m and a large range of clients including the mar...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Intelliplus is to acquire Medius Networks, the small Reading-based telecoms company that operates a voice and data network at the IX Europe site near ...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Centrica is to acquire Trolhurst, the provider of gas appliance servicing and central heating installation services, for £8.5m, gaining 450 addi...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Severfield-Rowen has acquired Watson Steel, the Bolton-based supplier of structural steelwork with 300 staff, from Amec Capital Projects for £2....
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Interior Services Group is to acquire Square Mile Real Estate Services, the London-based property management company, from Pillar Property for £...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Smiths has sold five small subsidiaries for a total £10m, withCambridge Vacuum Engineering going to Aquasium, Woodville Airbag Engineering to Sa...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: ISS is to acquire two damage recovery companies - Ark & General of Staffordshire and Electromec of Skipton for undisclosed terms...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Smiths is to acquire Summitek Instruments, the US supplier of interference testing equipment, for £7m...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2001: Cable & Wireless is planning to buy Exodus Communications, the US web- hosting company currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in a £...
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Sat, 01 Dec 2001: Baneberry Healthcare, Northern Ireland's largest care home operator employing over 2,300, has gone into receivership after failing to find a buye...
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Thu, 29 Nov 2001: SSL International, under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for overstating results in 1999 and 2000, has said that it might sell its Marigold ...
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001: Troubled Bioglan Pharma has put itself up for sale after revealing that a review of its controversial interim profits announcement had resulted in the...
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001: Gameplay's future looks bleak now that the online video games retailer, which was backed by Dixons, BT, and Sky has failed to find a buyer. Game...
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001: 365 Corporation, the Internet and telecoms company which was worth over £600m at the height of the dotcom boom is expected to announce a major r...
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001: The Body shop is again up for sale and it may receive a bid from its American Partner. Two deals have failed one with Lush and the other with Mexico...
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001: Oliver Peyton is said to be selling his flagship restaurant, Isola. He set it up three years ago at a cost of £4m but it is understood to be av...
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001: Ferraris, the medical equipment manufacturer, is preparing to sell the last of its engineering interests to fund acquisitions. ...
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001: Louis Vuitton-Moet Hennessy, the world' s largest luxury goods group, considers its loss making retailing division which includes Duty Free Shopp...
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