Acquisitions News | april | 2002

Tue, 30 Apr 2002: CSS Stellar is to acquire Craigie Taylor International, the Guildford-based sports sponsorship company, for up to £10m...
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002: International Academy, the football holiday company, is to undergo a £7m reverse takeover by Leisure Ventures...
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002: Nationwide Accident Repair Services, the car repair specialist, has accepted a £24m takeover bid from Guinness Peat...
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002: Smartlogik, the developer of knowledge management software, is to sell its assets to Applied Psychology Research for £1.7m, and APR will take on...
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002: Enterprise has acquired Lloyd & Scotter Lighting, the Hull-based provider of street lighting services, for £1.5m...
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002: Headlam has acquired DJ Hann, the regional distributor of floorcoverings, for an initial £0.5m, and will relocate the business to Headlam's...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: British European Associated Publishers, the publisher of pu,le magazines, is to undergo a £37m management buy-out from Sanoma Magazine of Finlan...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: Palletways, the logistics company, has undergone a £12m management buy-out backed by 3i...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: Westminster Healthcare is to sell the Priory chain of 29 health clinics to Doughty Hanson for £290m...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: Mappin & Webb is to acquire Robertsons, the London-based pawnbroker, for about £1m...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: Pimpernel has expanded its tablemats business with the acquisition of Cloverleaf Group, and will close Cloverleaf's Swindon factory with the loss...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: Idea Integration, the Brierley Hill-based software developer, has undergone a management buy-out from US parent MPS for undisclosed terms...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: Charles Stanley is to acquire Robson Cotterell, the Bournemouth-based stockbroker, for up to £9.5m...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: ABB, the troubled Swiss group that is backing out of financial services to focus on its core engineering activities, has put its reinsurance arm Siriu...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: BP has put its only independent British power station, at Great Yarmouth, up for sale. It is worth about £125m. The 400MW gas fired station wa...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002: Venture capital group 3i has put its private care group Care Principles, up for sale for an estimated price of £125m. Suffolk-based Care Princi...
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Fri, 26 Apr 2002: QuantaNova, the biotechnology company that has 58 staff and was formerly known as Scotia, has been bought of administration by Biolitec of Germany fo...
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Thu, 25 Apr 2002: Pell Frischmann has acquired Morgan Horne, the water and sewage consulting engineer, for undisclosed terms...
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Thu, 25 Apr 2002: Zetters is to acquire Financial Spreads, the spread betting company, from Sporting Index for £8.7m, partly funded by a £4.7m share placing...
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Thu, 25 Apr 2002: Matalan is to acquire Wolsey, the Leicester-based menswear supplier with annual turnover of £14m, for undisclosed terms...
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