Acquisitions News | june | 2002

Fri, 28 Jun 2002: BT Group is to acquire the Scoot online directories business for about £8m, in order to re-enter the classified information market following the...
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002: ImageState has acquired Pictor International, the London-based stock photography company....
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002: RPS Group has acquired MCOS, the Irish engineering and environmental consultancy with 350 staff, for £12m....
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002: XKO Group has acquired Aran, the enterprise business software company with offices in York, Birmingham and Burnham, for £2.4m....
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002: Cadbury Schweppes is to acquire the branded chewing gum business of Dandy of Denmark for £201m....
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002: Pfizer has announced the sale of its sweet and shaving businesses, Adams Confectionery and Schick-Wilkinson Sword. Merrill Lynch and Lazard are advisi...
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002: KPNQwest, the bankrupt Dutch data communications company, is thought to be en route to being broken up and sold off, after AT&T left the bidding p...
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002: Bunzl has sold its paper distribution business to PaperLinX of Australia for £139m, and the proceeds will be used to reduce debt....
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002: Albert Fisher's receivers are to sell three chilled foods businesses to Fresh Del Monte Produce of the US for undisclosed terms, saving 1,200 job...
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002: Sportingbet has acquired the Sporting Odds betting business from Sporting Index for £4.5m, partly funded by a £2m share issue....
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002: General Domestic Appliances, the manufacturer of Hotpoint white goods with 6,000 UK staff, is being acquired by Merloni Elettrodomestici of Italy in a...
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002: Medical Solutions has reached agreement with Peterborough Hospital Trust to acquire Peterborough Cellular Pathology Services, in return for an annual ...
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002: Haynes Publishing is to acquire the printed manuals business of Gregory Automotive Publications of Australia from Universal Press for £2.1m....
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002: Fresh Del Monte Produce is to buy three businesses from the receivers of Albert Fisher foods. ...
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002: Thomas Vale has acquired Paul Adams, the Halesowen-based street lighting contractor, for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002: Brake Bros, the catering company, is to be acquired by US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice in a £434m deal....
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002: It is thought that Cadbury Schweppes may be near to closing a deal on chewing gum brands such as Stimorol, V6 and Dirol, owned by the Danish company D...
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002: Liberty Media, made up of a group of 12 investors, is thinking of bidding for the cable television assets of Deutsche Telekom for the second time in 4...
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002: The UK's biggest private retailer, Littlewoods, is hoping to sell its clothing chain for more than £250m. It is in discussions with several...
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002: The private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has bid £434m for the food service business Brake Bros. It plans to expand the company acro...
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