Acquisitions News | march | 2001

Thu, 01 Mar 2001: BP Amoco, the energy group, is said to be close to finalising the sale of Burmah Castrol's speciality chemicals business after whittling down to ...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Elementis, the speciality chemicals group that put itself up for sale in December, reported a strong rise in full year profits, but warned that energy...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Stanley Leisure, the gaming group, that owns Crockfords Casino in Mayfair, has made an approach to buy the 860 strong chain of Coral betting shops own...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: EuroTelecom, the communications and internet group chaired by the serial entrepeneur Chris Akers, has appointed administrators just ten months after r...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Gearhouse Group, whose shares were suspended in December because it was unable to report its full year results called in the receivers Ernst and Young...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Hamleys, the toy retailer has ended discussions about a possible sale of the business and decided to remain independent. ...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: RMC, the worlds biggest ready mix concrete producer is preparing to make a further £300m worth of disposals this year to improve prospects for t...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Danka Business Systems, the photocopier supplier, is negotiating to sell its document outsourcing division, Danka Services International as part of a ...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Atlantic 252, the ailing longwave radio station that broadcasts music to Britain from Dublin, is for sale. RTL, the pan-European TV and radio broadca...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: The owner of the new economy magazine Business 2.0 confirmed that he had retained Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co to explore strategic options inc...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Sair Group, parent company of airline Swissair, has put its hotel division Swisshotel up for sale, in a move analysts believe could raise up to £...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Inflexion, the quoted venture capitalist, raised £40m last year and appears to have invested wisely. There are rumours in the market that a num...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Friends Provident, the mutual life insurer, is preparing to abandon its planned £4bn stockmarket flotation in favour of a sale to a rival insure...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Smith and Nephew, the medical devices group, that has undergone a radical restructuring, is looking for acquisitions to bolster its target of double-d...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Pearse Flynn, a Glasgow-based businessman and former managing director of Newbridge Networks, a Canadian technology company, has made an approach to b...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: The leaders of the city chapters of First Tuesday, the UK-based internet provider networking group that rose to prominence amid the bubble in web stoc...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: L&G Ventures, the private equity arm of Legal & General, has made a cash offer to buy 1,000 local pubs from Bass, the hotel group, for around ...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: PA Consulting, one of Britain's largest management consultancies is said to be close to agreeing a merger with Arthur D Little, its American peer...
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: BT's leading shareholders are said to be impatient for action on disposals of its non-core businesses in the UK, Europe and Japan....
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001: Enic, the sport and media company, is seeking shareholder approval to sell its knowledge management company, and Glasgow Rangers, the Scottish footbal...
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Acquisitions News: March 2001

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