Acquisitions News | april | business sale | 2003

Wed, 30 Apr 2003: Bradford & Bingley is to acquire Holden Meehan, the independent financial adviser, for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003: SectorGuard has acquired the manned guarding business of London Alliance Contract Services for an initial £0.5m....
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003: Betinternet.com has acquired Oddsalive, the Malta-based online betting company, for a nominal sum....
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003: WPP has acquired Sadek Wynberg Research for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its Millward Brown market research division....
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003: Scottish & Newcastle is to acquire HP Bulmer, the Hereford-based cider maker, for £278m, and has also announced the acquisition of Portugues...
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003: Selfridges, the upmarket department store chain, has instructed Merrill Lynch, the investment bank, to start a formal auction process for the group. ...
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003: Strainstall Group has acquired Prolec, the Dorset-based manufacturer of safety equipment with 24 staff....
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003: Wolseley is planning to acquire Pinault Bois & Materiaux, the French distributor of building materials with 5,300 staff, for £390m....
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003: Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Berlin Verlag Beteiligungsgesellschaft and BvT Berliner Taschenbuch Verlags, in order to expand its literary publis...
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003: Wolseley, the heating and plumbing supplier, and CRH the ...
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Wed, 23 Apr 2003: Valpak has sold its commercial glass collection business to Berryman, including the assets, trade and goodwill of the Recycle-more-glass scheme....
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Wed, 23 Apr 2003: SDL has acquired Lomac, the provider of Eastern European localisation and translation services, for up to £1.2m....
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Tue, 22 Apr 2003: Linpac, the privately-held packaging group, has been put up for sale by the family that owns it for an asking price of some £1bn. Michael Corni...
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003: Cordell Group has acquired Structures (Teesside), the steel-working company with 30 staff, and 30 additional jobs will be created within two years....
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003: Photo-Me International has acquired the Central Lab Equipment division of the former Gretag Imaging company in Switzerland for £1.4m, in order t...
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003: Planit Holdings is to acquire Radan Computational, the Bath-based supplier of CAD software for the sheet metal industry, for £3.6m....
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003: Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire Port Financial Corporation, the US holding company for the Cambridgeport savings bank, for £180m....
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003: Brit Insurance is to acquire PRI Group, the professional indemnity insurer, for £156m....
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Thu, 17 Apr 2003: Hanson is to acquire Better Materials Corporation, the US aggregates company, for £97m....
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Thu, 17 Apr 2003: Chesterton International, the commercial property company, is expected to accept a £10m takeover offer from Phoenix Acquisitions, a vehicle set ...
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Business Sale Acquisitions News: April 2003