Acquisitions News: January 2003

Mon, 06 Jan 2003: Vivid Imaginations, the toy company, has undergone a £62m management buy-out backed by Phoenix Equity Partners....
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Mon, 06 Jan 2003: Ferraris has acquired Del Mar Medical, the US supplier of heart monitors, for £6.2m....
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Mon, 06 Jan 2003: Whitbread is to sell up to 60 Beefeater restaurants and is considering shedding the Beefeater name. The restaurants are the poorest performing in its ...
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Mon, 06 Jan 2003: First National, the consumer credit arm of Abbey National, is to be sold off piecemeal. The bank has failed to find a buyer for the whole business and...
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Fri, 03 Jan 2003: Tom Cobleigh has sold its chain of 28 tenanted pubs to Daniel Thwaites for £12m....
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Fri, 03 Jan 2003: Spirax-Sarco Engineering has acquired AMPE, the Italian manufacturer of pneumatic and electronic instrumentation, for about £1m....
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Fri, 03 Jan 2003: Punch Taverns has acquired Conquest Inns, the operator of 61 pubs, for £26m, taking its estate to 4,484 sites....
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Fri, 03 Jan 2003: Park Place Capital is to support a £25m management buy-out of London-based Signature Restaurants....
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Fri, 03 Jan 2003: Kirker Holidays, the London-based travel company with 30 staff, has been sold to a management team backed by ECI Ventures for about £15m....
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Thu, 02 Jan 2003: Meadgate Homes, the Cardiff-based luxury housebuilder, has undergone a management buy-out from the Lexington Group for undisclosed terms....
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Thu, 02 Jan 2003: Tomkins has sold Fedco Automotive, the US manufacturer of automotive heater cores, to TransPro for about £5m....
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Thu, 02 Jan 2003: Wax Lyrical, the candle retailer with sales of £11m, has been put into receivership by its US owner Blyth Inc. The 35 stores in the UK and Irela...
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Thu, 02 Jan 2003: Thomas Potts, the print manufacturer, is planning to focus on print management and away from manufacturing. It has already disposed of 2 divisions and...
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