Acquisitions News | september | 2001

Wed, 26 Sep 2001: French restaurant operator, Groupe Flo, owner of the Cafe Flo brasserie chain, has decided to sell its nine London brasseries prompted by sliding sale...
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Wed, 26 Sep 2001: Group Lotus, the sports car and engineering concern majority owned by Proton of Malaysia, is to sell a Coventry consultancy engineering business it bo...
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Mon, 24 Sep 2001: Pernod Ricard, the French drinks company, is currently in talks to dispose of its BWG grocery distribution operation. It is selling a number on non-co...
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Mon, 24 Sep 2001: Whitbread has reopened talks with other bidders for its Curzon fitness clubs chain, in case the favoured buyer, a consortium led by P.R. guru Matthew ...
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Mon, 24 Sep 2001: Cedar Group, the troubled software company which issued a profits warning last week, has put Sword, its bingo gaming subsidiary, up for sale to avoid ...
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Mon, 24 Sep 2001: Leading Canadian and US beer companies have entered the race to buy Carling, the UK’s leading lager brand, which Belgian drinks company Interbre...
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001: Seascope is to acquire Braemar Tankers the tanker broking company for £7.3m as part of a strategy to create one of the world's largest ship...
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001: Highbury House Communications has acquired DMG World Media's Power Portfolio of magazines for £0.8m in order to expand its Cumulus Business...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Marlborough Stirling is to acquire Exchange FS the operator of trading platforms for £87m in order to expand its financial services software bus...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Textflow is expanding its Belfast-based printing business with the acquisition of the Northern Ireland operations of logistics company Astron...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Consignia, formerly the Post Office, is putting its entire 40,000-strong fleet of vehicles up for sale in a bid to save money. The company is seeking ...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Jigsaw Group, a leading chain of private nursery schools, is on sale for up to £60m. Investment bank SG Hambros have been appointed to sell the ...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Cromwells Madhouse, the discount menswear retailer, has put itself up for sale with an estimated price tag of up to £15m. Cavendish Corporate Fi...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Shearings Holidays, the coach company that takes pensioners on package breaks, is being put up for sale at £130m. Shearings has already attracte...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Woolworths’ head office has been put up for sale by Kingfisher. The split between Kingfisher and Woolworths’ was completed last month but ...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Pirelli, the Italian tyre and cable maker, is to sell parts of its business empire in a £1bn+ disposal programme. Investment bank Lazard has bee...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Brake-fluid-to-drinks dispensers group IMI is to sell businesses accounting for 35% of its turnover. The 10 businesses on offer include a copper and p...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Atlantic Telecom has put itself up for sale, but has warned that it is unable to determine the value of its shares amid an everlasting wrangle with bo...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: The computer companies Hewlett-Packard and Compaq will offer to sell off part of their £11bn server business if regulators stand in the way of t...
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001: Chorion, the leisure and media business, is in talks that could lead to a break up of Whizalpha, the £180m nightclubs business owned by Candover...
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Acquisitions News: September 2001

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