Acquisitions News | august | business sale | 2003

Sun, 31 Aug 2003: Rebel Caledonia Investments investors campaigning for the break-up of the business are about to send shareholders a proposal demanding the liquidation...
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Fri, 29 Aug 2003: Cogne UK has acquired George H Cook, the steel supplier with sites in Sheffield and Coventry, for undisclosed terms....
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Fri, 29 Aug 2003: GX Networks has acquired Firstnet Services, the Leeds-based telecoms services company, for £4.3m....
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Thu, 28 Aug 2003: Meica, the Ashford-based building maintenance company with 220 staff, has been acquired by Imtech of the Netherlands....
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Thu, 28 Aug 2003: Cherry Valley, the Lincolnshire-based duck producer with about 650 staff, is expected to be acquired by Thailand-based venture capital firm Navis....
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Thu, 28 Aug 2003: GB Communications has acquired Motek Portable Products of South Yorkshire, and is now looking to expand its radio equipment business into the offshore...
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Wed, 27 Aug 2003: McDonald Yang is to be acquired by shell company Readybuy and floated on Aim, in order to fund the expansion of its range of Yang Sing ready meals....
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Wed, 27 Aug 2003: Mears has acquired Scion Group, the Newbury-based building maintenance company, for up to £6m....
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Wed, 27 Aug 2003: A senior union boss yesterday said a business case could be drawn up in less than two weeks if Birmingham's Alstom train plant was put up for sal...
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Mon, 25 Aug 2003: Mussett Engineering, the Norfolk-based manufacturer of metal and plastic components with 80 staff, is being bought out of a Company Voluntary Arrangem...
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Fri, 22 Aug 2003: Mouchel has acquired Parkman Group, the Sutton Coldfield-based support services and consulting engineering company, for £78m, and the combined g...
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Wed, 20 Aug 2003: Premier Oilfield Services, the Aberdeen-based supplier of oilfield equipment with 41 staff, has been acquired by Superior Energy Services of the US fo...
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003: WT Foods has acquired Marston Valley Foods, the manufacturer of chilled ready meals, for undisclosed terms....
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003: Scarlett Retail, owner of Allders department store group is in talks to aquire a stake in House of Fraser and may make a full scale takeover bid for i...
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003: Alizyme, the biotechnology group, has effectively been put up for sale a week after it sealed a $42m licensing deal in Japan for its anti-obesity drug...
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003: BHP Billington, one of the worlds largest mining groups, is preparing a bid for Drax, the UK's biggest power station. The coal fired power stati...
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Mon, 18 Aug 2003: Watershed Plastics of Durham has acquired HydroFlow Solutions, in order to expand its drainage equipment business into Ireland....
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Fri, 15 Aug 2003: Xenova has announced a £8.5m takeover bid for KS Biomedix, and expects to raise at least £9m in a share issue to fund the development of K...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Dubbed the Tartan Tatler the glossy Scottish lifestyle title Caledonia remains on the block. With a turnover supposedly around the £1 million-ma...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Tribal Group has acquired Geronimo Public Relations for £14m, in order to expand its public sector professional services business....
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Business Sale Acquisitions News: August 2003