Acquisitions News | october | 2003

Mon, 27 Oct 2003: Lazards, the blue-blooded investment bank run by veteran dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein, is expected to emerge as the preferred bidder for 127-year-old C...
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Fri, 24 Oct 2003: Scottish & Newcastle has sold the T&R Theakston brewing business in Yorkshire to its founding family....
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Fri, 24 Oct 2003: Montpellier is to sell three construction subsidiaries - Cornhill Interiors, Lodge & Sons and YJL Facilities - to a former executive for a nominal...
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Fri, 24 Oct 2003: Macdonald Hotels, the Scottish leisure group whose founders recently took it off the stock market, announced plans yesterday to trim back the size of ...
[more: Macdonald Hotels, the Scottish leisure g...]

Fri, 24 Oct 2003: Procter & Gamble has put its controversial drink brand Sunny Delight up for sale. This follows a disastrous multimillion pound attempt to relaunch...
[more: Procter & Gamble has put its controversi...]

Thu, 23 Oct 2003: Coral Eurobet has acquired the George Atkins chain of 47 betting shops in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire for an estimated £14m....
[more: Coral Eurobet has acquired the George At...]

Thu, 23 Oct 2003: Alcan is planning to sell its Fibrenyle plastic packaging division, which includes sites in Norwich, Beccles, Thetford and the Midlands, to Polimoon o...
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Thu, 23 Oct 2003: Future Network is to acquire Computec Media UK from its German parent company for £3.2m, which will involve the transfer of staff and computer m...
[more: Future Network is to acquire Computec Me...]

Thu, 23 Oct 2003: Invensys is to sell its utility metering business, which includes 13 manufacturing facilities in the US and elsewhere, to IMS Meters Holdings for &pou...
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Thu, 23 Oct 2003: MyTravel is to sell World Choice Travel, the online hotel room sales company, to Travelocity of the US for £30m....
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Thu, 23 Oct 2003: Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its Sequence UK estate agency business to the Connells subsidiary of the Skipton Building Society....
[more: Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its Sequen...]

Thu, 23 Oct 2003: National Height Specialists has bought Pendrich, the steeplejack company with 30 staff, from the receivers of Bierrum....
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003: OMS Safety & Quality has merged with Paramode Consultants to create a combined health and safety consultancy with offices in Derby, Leicester and ...
[more: OMS Safety & Quality has merged with Par...]

Wed, 22 Oct 2003: British United Shoe Machinery has acquired Shoemat of Northamptonshire, creating a combined footwear components group with 89 staff in the UK and more...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003: SecureMove Property Services has acquired Douglas Duff, the surveying practice with offices in Milton Keynes and Bedford, taking its nationwide networ...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003: Derby County Football Club has been bought out of receivership by a consortium, and the new board has raised £15m in a refinancing deal....
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003: PowerGen has agreed terms to acquire Midlands Electricity from Aquila & First Energy for £1.2bn, and expects to make annual cost savings of ...
[more: PowerGen has agreed terms to acquire Mid...]

Wed, 22 Oct 2003: Speedy Survey has acquired the Watts Optronics branch network from survey equipment supplier Leica Geosystems for £1.3m....
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003: We tipped back in July that the American private equity group, Blackstone, wanted to offload London's luxury Claridges hotel. Now the 203 room h...
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003: Bentley Jennison has acquired Waddingtons, the Bristol-based accountancy firm, creating a combined office with 100 staff....
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Acquisitions News: October 2003

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