Acquisitions News: August 2003

Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Ryland, the car dealership, is planning a £46m management buy-out with financial backing from Barclays....
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: PHS has acquired the washroom services division of Johnson Service for £14m....
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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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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Taylor Nelson Sofres has sold MRM Promotional Services to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 120 jobs, and MRM is seek...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: ISIS Equity Partners has supported a £20m management buy-out at Americana, the Manchester-based fashion company with about 250 staff....
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Playit.com, the Wirral-based online gaming company with 13 staff, has been acquired by BETandWIN.com Interactive Entertainment of Austria, and the bus...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Triplex Components has sold its iron castings business, which employs more than 200 staff at each of its sites in Tipton and Cardiff, to a management ...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Asda, the supermarket chain owned by Walmart, has told the competition commission it would be willing to sell 100 of Safeway's largest stores if ...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: The luxury hotel group Hanover International has asked its financial adviser NM Rothschild to put the chain up for sale. Hanover runs 12 hotels and t...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003: Corus plans to sell the bulk of its north American business after several years of disappointing profits from the region. The lossmaking Anglo-Dutch steelmaker plans to offload its North American distribution business by the first quarter of next year in order to help reduce debt and finance the group's UK restructu...
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Wed, 13 Aug 2003: Euromoney Institutional Investor has acquired HedgeFund Intelligence, the hedge fund publisher and event organiser, for up to £16m....
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Wed, 13 Aug 2003: Rolls-Royce has acquired the electrical controls business of VT Group for £11m, in order to offer integrated power solutions....
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Wed, 13 Aug 2003: Standard Motor Products Europe has sold Webcon UK, the Sunbury-based supplier of automotive carburettors to the automotive aftermarket, to a managemen...
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Wed, 13 Aug 2003: Lloydspharmacy has acquired Graeme Pharmacy, the chain of eight Scottish pharmacies with 44 staff, for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 13 Aug 2003: Martindales has sold its building services and Alphingdale Controls divisions to Integral for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 170 jobs....
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003: Detica has acquired Rubus, the systems integrator that focuses on content management and customer interaction solutions, for £2.6m....
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003: Go-Ahead has acquired Wilts & Dorset Bus Company, the Poole-based operator of 365 buses, for £32m....
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003: Charles Stanley is to acquire the Nothing Ventured online share dealing service and part of a private client brokerage from Durlacher for up to £...
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003: Johnson Service has sold Connacht Court Group, the operator of Johnson's textile rental business in Ireland, to National Linen for £15m....
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003: Sanderson, makers of curtains for the Queen, has gone into receivership part way through a restructuring plan. Sanderson turned over £23m last ...
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