Acquisitions News | august | 2003

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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Wed, 27 Aug 2003: Troubled textiles firm Carpets International UK is putting all seven of its operations up for sale. The UK-based company, which went into receivership...
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Wed, 27 Aug 2003: Struggling Pizza Express has put the For Sale sign up at fourteen of its outlets, according to Property Week magazine. The company, acquired last mont...
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Tue, 26 Aug 2003: According to reports, US industrial group United Technologies which acquired UK security firm Chubb in June, is contemplating the sale of parts of the...
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Tue, 26 Aug 2003: NTL are understood to be restructuring their financing arrangements and as part of this are considering offloading their communications towers busines...
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Mon, 25 Aug 2003: Powrmatic is to buy Selkirks Manufacturing, the Barnstaple-based manufacturer of chimneys and exhausts, out of receivership for £2.7m, and some ...
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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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Mon, 25 Aug 2003: Science Workshops, the Carmarthenshire-based electrical company, has undergone a management buy-out backed by the Wales Co-operative Centre....
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Sun, 24 Aug 2003: The Competition Commission has delivered its report on the proposed £4bn merger of the ITV giants, Granada and Carlton, to Patricia Hewitt, the ...
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Fri, 22 Aug 2003: The BBC should be made to sell its most popular programmes to its commercial rivals and concentrate more on its public service obligations, the chief ...
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Fri, 22 Aug 2003: Safestore, the operator of 23 self-storage sites, has undergone a £40m management buy-out backed by Bridgepoint Capital....
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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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Fri, 22 Aug 2003: Rexam is to sell its medical flexible packaging division to Amcor of Australia for £135m, which will involve the transfer of more than 1,000 sta...
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Thu, 21 Aug 2003: Vocalis, the speech recognition software company with 60 staff, has gone into administration and the main trading division has been sold to Netdecisio...
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Thu, 21 Aug 2003: Po Na Na's administrators are to sell 28 of its 45 bars to Avanti Capital for about £7m....
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Thu, 21 Aug 2003: Simbec Research, the Merthyr-based pharmaceuticals research company with 80 staff, has undergone a management buy-out from Merck Sante SAS of France f...
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Wed, 20 Aug 2003: Royal Bank of Scotland has sold its NCB stockbroking division in Ireland to management for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 20 Aug 2003: Nidd Vale Group has sold its General Motors division in Harrogate and Wetherby, which includes 150 staff, to a management buy-out for undisclosed term...
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Wed, 20 Aug 2003: H&A Wines of Chorley has been bought out of administration by the owner of Halewood International for about £2.5m, saving up to 150 jobs....
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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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Acquisitions News: August 2003

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