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Acquisitions News: 2002

Mon, 18 Nov 2002: Zurich Financial Services has put up for sale one of its fund management businesses, Threadneedle Investments. The operation has £43 billion of ...
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: PizzaExpress, the chain with nearly 300 restaurants in the UK is being eyed by potential bidders. It has already received a bid from leisure entrepren...
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: Advertising agency HHCL may be sold by media group Chime Communications. Due to complete an equity-swap with Red Cell, it is now thought that a cash s...
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: Topland Group the private property group is selling a fifth of its UK property portfolio. The 70 properties include offices, shops and industrial site...
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: Logica has acquired Great Lakes Technologies, the US automotive IT solutions company with 220 staff, for £14m....
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: Montgomery Transport has acquired Dukes Transport, the Portadown-based road haulage company with 460 staff, for undisclosed terms....
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: Lion Foods, the Runcorn-based company with 185 staff, has been bought out of administration by a management team....
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: P&O is forming a joint venture with CMA-CGM to acquire an 80% stake in Egis Ports, the French container terminal operator, for about £35m....
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Mon, 18 Nov 2002: Sainsbury has acquired collapsed US retailer Ames, and about 12 of the 18 New England sites will be converted to its Shaw's format....
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: Centrica has announced the £304m acquisition of Dynegy Storage and Dynegy Onshore Processing, the owner of the Rough offshore gas storage facili...
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: Creston is to acquire EMO Group, the marketing communications company with 57 staff in Swindon and Bristol, for up to £5.7m....
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: William Baird is to sell Lowe Alpine, its Kendal-based outdoor sportswear business, to Aspen for £13m....
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: Meggitt has sold Wayfarer Transit Systems of Poole and Systech Solutions of Croydon to a management buy-out for £15m....
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: Campus Media is to acquire The Get Real Marketing Company, the brand communication company that focuses on students, for up to £1.2m....
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: NTP has acquired TTC Training of Woking from ABTA, to create a combined workforce training business with 280 staff....
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: Siemens has sold its electronics manufacturing facility in Nottingham to a management buy-out operating under the name of SMS Electronics for undisclo...
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: HSBC is to acquire Household International, the US consumer finance company, for £8.6bn....
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Fri, 15 Nov 2002: Prudential is to sell its German life insurance business to Canada Life for £82m....
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Thu, 14 Nov 2002: Park Group has acquired Cheshire Securities, the Stockport-based credit services company, for £1.2m, taking its network of branches to 29....
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Thu, 14 Nov 2002: Skipton Building Society has acquired a majority stake in Private Health Partnership, the Otley-based private health insurance broker, for £3.4m...
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