Acquisitions News | march | 2003

Mon, 31 Mar 2003: McCormick Macnaughton has acquired the Northern Ireland construction equipment rental business of Hewden Stuart....
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Mon, 31 Mar 2003: Tenon has sold its Tenon Livingstone Guarantee corporate finance business to eight partners in the Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham offices for u...
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Mon, 31 Mar 2003: Brambles Industries has sold the Serviceteam repair and maintenance business of its Cleanaway waste management division to AWG Facilities Services fo...
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Mon, 31 Mar 2003: Consort Resources, the North Sea gas business, has abandoned plans of a flotation following tough market conditions. The company has decided to sell t...
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Fri, 28 Mar 2003: Watermark Group is to acquire M'n'H Recycling, the Sussex-based recycler of airline amenity and other travel products, for up to £1.3m...
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Fri, 28 Mar 2003: Express Dairies has agreed terms for a merger with the UK division of Arla Foods, which could lead to annual cost savings of more than £20m....
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Thu, 27 Mar 2003: Lastminute.com has acquired Holiday Autos, the car rental broker, for £40m....
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Thu, 27 Mar 2003: Electronic Packaging Systems of Braintree has been bought out of receivership by an undisclosed buyer, securing the future of about 150 jobs....
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Thu, 27 Mar 2003: Strathclyde Homes has bought Novaside Timber Frames out of receivership for an estimated £1m, securing the future of 25 jobs in Cumbernauld....
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Wed, 26 Mar 2003: GUS has announced a £70m deal to take full control of Scorex, the Bradford-based credit solutions company, in order to expand its Experian busin...
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Wed, 26 Mar 2003: Itouch is acquire Movilisto, the provider of mobile phone services in Spain and Portugal, for an initial £24m....
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Wed, 26 Mar 2003: Cable and Wireless have reached agreement over their outstanding tax payments which now allows them to look at the restructuring of the group. Analys...
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Wed, 26 Mar 2003: Kroll, the Administrators appointed to Affinity Wireless, the main trading business of Affinity Internet Holdings, said they expect to sell the busine...
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003: MEB Contracting of Birmingham has undergone a management buy-out from Midlands Electricity for undisclosed terms, creating a new company with 70 staff...
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003: Alpha Newspaper Group of Dungannon has merged with the Northern Newspaper Group of Coleraine, creating a combined newspaper publishing company called ...
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003: ML Laboratories is to sell its Icodextrin glucose polymer manufacturing business in Liverpool to Baxter Healthcare for £6.5m....
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003: Clarity Commerce Solutions is to acquire Romulus Enterprises, the Edinburgh-based supplier of business intelligence analytic software, for up to &poun...
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003: Viyella, the operator of 34 fashion stores, has been acquired by Harris Watson of Birmingham for undisclosed terms....
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003: British Biotech is to merge with RiboTargets, creating a combined biotechnology group with a market value of £52m....
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003: Armitage, the Nottingham-based pet food manufacturer with factories in Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne, Pinxton and Dundee, has agreed to a £8.1m t...
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Acquisitions News: March 2003

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