Acquisitions News: August 2003

Tue, 05 Aug 2003: RAL Holdings, the operator of 135 Quicksilver amusement arcades, is to undergo a £40m management buy-out backed by PPM...
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Tue, 05 Aug 2003: Numerica has acquired Forbes Dawson, the Manchester-based tax consultancy, for £0.7m...
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Tue, 05 Aug 2003: Torex has expanded its healthcare software business with the £1.4m acquisition of the operating theatre and anaesthesia systems business of Civi...
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Tue, 05 Aug 2003: Mouchel has acquired GEL Group, the Leicestershire-based gas engineering consultancy with 60 staff, for £3m...
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Tue, 05 Aug 2003: The property fund management business of Aberdeen Asset Management is again up for sale after talks with British Land collapsed. ...
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Tue, 05 Aug 2003: The board of ANS, the care homes group, has asked NM Rothschild to explore a number of options for the business including a sale of part or all of the...
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Tue, 05 Aug 2003: National Grid Transco (NGT) is seeking to dispose of its eight gas pipeline netorks in a bid to raise up to £5 billion. NGT has appointed Morgan...
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Mon, 04 Aug 2003: Travis Perkins has acquired Jayhard, the Southampton-based chain of 53 plumbing and heating branches, for £26m...
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Mon, 04 Aug 2003: AWG, the parent company of Anglian Water, has yet to find a buyer for Anglian Water International. One of its executive directors is understood to ha...
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Fri, 01 Aug 2003: Ultra Electronics is to acquire Radamec Defence Systems, the Surrey-based supplier of surveillance and weapon control systems with about 70 staff, for...
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Fri, 01 Aug 2003: Brit Insurance has sold Peoples Choice Europe, the telesales personal lines insurance broker, to Hastings Insurance Services for £7.2m...
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Fri, 01 Aug 2003: Centrica has agreed to sell the Goldfish credit card and personal loans business to Lloyds TSB in a £112m deal...
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Fri, 01 Aug 2003: Global Group, the meat company that last year lost a quarter of its sales when Burger King switched suppliers, is to sell its meat trading division an...
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Fri, 01 Aug 2003: Trinity Mirror is under pressure to carry out a radical overhaul of its operations. This could be the sale of its national newspaper the Daily Mirror...
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Fri, 01 Aug 2003: Cooksons shares have risen as the ceramics and electronics group reduced first half losses and signalled it was prepared to sell its heavily lossmakin...
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