Acquisitions News: July 2003

Thu, 31 Jul 2003: Braemar Seascope is to acquire Cory Brothers, the ship agency, for £1.5m...
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003: Diploma has acquired HA Wainwright, the distributor of temperature and pressure control instruments, for £7.8m...
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003: Royal Bank of Scotland has acquired Community Bancorp, the Massachusetts-based bank with ten branches, for £69m...
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003: Paragon Labels has acquired EPL Technologies of Gainsborough and Norfolk Labels of Griston, increasing its workforce by 140 to 500...
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003: Stanelco has acquired Adept Polymers, the manufacturer of biodegradable plastics, for £0.3m...
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003: Pfizer, the US drugs group, is considering the sale of its surgical opthalmology business, which generates $150m in annual turnover. The division has manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands and Sweden. Pfizer is being advised by Morgan Stanley. ...
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Wed, 30 Jul 2003: CRH is to acquire Cementbouw, the Dutch building materials and DIY group, for £488m...
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Wed, 30 Jul 2003: IG Group, the spread betting company, is to undergo a £143m management buy-out backed by venture capital group CVC...
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Wed, 30 Jul 2003: Berkeley Berry Birch has acquired MacRobins, the insurance broker and employee benefits company, for an initial £0.7m...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: Kleeneze has sold its DMG display marketing business to Premier Direct for £4.1m...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: Ashtead has raised £6m from the disposal of certain non-core businesses, including the sale of the rental assets of its Big Air division to Spee...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: Taylor & Francis has acquired Frank Cass & Co, the London-based journal and book publisher, for £9.5m...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: Abbey National is understood to be in talks with various parties to sell its French mortgage business, which has assets of £4bn. The Abbey Nati...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: Centrica, Britain's biggest household energy supplier, is preparing to sell Goldfish, its loss-making financial services arm. Goldfish as expand...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: Lord Moynihan, the former Conservative energy minister, is close to announcing the sale of Consort Resources, the UK's biggest privately owned ga...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, the infrastructure businesses with businesses stretching around Canada, Australasia and the Far-East is intereste...
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003: The tour operator MyTravel has put its American assets up for sale in a move that could raise more than $300m. The debt-laden company has hired Banc ...
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003: Zwemmer, the London-based arts bookseller, has been bought out of administration by Shipley...
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003: Insure-Shop has acquired Birstall-based K&M Lee Insurance, taking its national network to 21 branches...
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Wed, 23 Jul 2003: ARM Holdings has acquired Adelante Technologies, the Belgian designer of data processing systems, for undisclosed terms...
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