Administration Acquisitions News: September 2003

Mon, 29 Sep 2003: SCI Entertainment has bought the Pivotal Games computer games subsidiary of Kaboom Studios out of receivership for £2.4m....
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Fri, 26 Sep 2003: WestLB has hired Goldman Sachs to seek a buyer for the television rental business Box Clever as the German bank forced the company's service busi...
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Tue, 23 Sep 2003: Brandons, the turkey producer, has been bought out of administration by a new company called Cranberry Foods, saving 650 jobs in Abergavenny, 350 in D...
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Thu, 18 Sep 2003: Corporate recovery specialists Kroll are looking for possible buyers of the menswear chain Ciro Citterio. It is the second time in two and a half year...
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Wed, 17 Sep 2003: Cumbrian Seafoods has bought the Border Lairds business of The Ken Bell Seafood Company out of administration, saving 32 jobs....
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Wed, 10 Sep 2003: Atchison Casting Corporation announced that its U.K. subsidiaries (with the exception of Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Ltd.) filed for administra...
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Mon, 08 Sep 2003: McIntyre & King, the Liverpool-based provider of direct marketing support services with 450 staff, has been bought out of administration by a mana...
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Thu, 04 Sep 2003: Gardening e-commerce company Dig-It (Online) is looking for a buyer after going into administrative receivership. The firm, which employs 20 s...
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Thu, 04 Sep 2003: Powerhouse, the electrical retailer, has been bought out of administration by Pacific Retail Group of New Zealand, and PRG expects to secure 2,000 job...
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Tue, 02 Sep 2003: Walker Greenbank has bought the assets of wallpaper supplier Sanderson & Sons out of receivership for £5.5m, saving 236 jobs....
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