Acquisitions News | october | 2002

Thu, 31 Oct 2002: Old Monk's administrators have agreed to sell seven pubs to the Barracuda Group for £7.8m, and are now looking to sell the remaining 17 sit...
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002: Regent Inns has sold 17 unbranded pubs to Porter Black Holdings for £4.3m....
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002: Tesco is to acquire T&S Stores, the owner of more than 1,000 convenience stores and newsagents, for £520m, and will re-brand 450 outlets wit...
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002: Palgrave Brown, the Chorley-based timber supplier with 800 staff and 17 sites nationwide, has undergone a £30m management buy-out backed by Aber...
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002: Crantock Bakery, the Newquay-based bakery with 77 staff, has undergone a £6m management buy-out backed by Northern Venture Managers....
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002: SZ Gears, the Risca-based gear-cutting equipment company with 16 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Finance Wales....
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002: Cranswick has acquired North Wales Foods, the sandwich supplier with net assets of £1m....
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002: Centrica, Britain's largest supplier of gas and electricity, is reportedly considering the sale of its liquified petroleum gas business....
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Wed, 30 Oct 2002: Fieldens is to acquire CamAxys, the Cambridgeshire-based supplier of health and safety management systems, for £1.5m....
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Wed, 30 Oct 2002: Amvescap is to acquire Whitehall Asset Management, the private wealth manager, from the Industrial Bank of Japan for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 30 Oct 2002: Jeffreys Haulage, the Derbyshire-based transport company with 80 staff, has undergone a management buy-out....
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Wed, 30 Oct 2002: Field & Lawn Marquees has acquired Black & Edgington, the supplier of marquees and temporary structures, from the Arena events organising grou...
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: Aga Foodservice has acquired Bongard, the French bakery equipment manufacturer, from 3i for £34m....
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: Co-operative Group has acquired the Alldays chain of 600 convenience stores for £131m, and will soon announce plans for a major refurbishment pr...
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: Howard Basford, the vehicle repair company, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms....
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: MY Holdings has acquired Gallagher Printers of Waterford, in order to expand its healthcare cartons business in Ireland....
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: Headlam Group has bought GAAS Flooring of Watford and GAAS Flooring Distributors of Cambridge out of administration, and will relocate the operations ...
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: Hansard Group has acquired Alan Bailey Studios, the public relations company trading as ABS Communications....
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: Quantica has acquired Selection Training, the Manchester-based provider of work-based training, for an initial £0.2m....
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002: CB Print Finishers of Newcastle has been bought out of administration by a management buy-out, and will now be called Hay Binders....
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Acquisitions News: October 2002

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