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Acquisitions News: October 2003

Tue, 21 Oct 2003: Interfleet Technology has acquired TrainTech Engineering, the Swedish railway rolling stock consultancy with 90 staff....
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003: CD Bramall has acquired Land Rover and Rover dealerships in Aylesbury from Dutton Forshaw for £4.4m....
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003: Aegis has acquired PSI, the airport advertising company, for an initial £5.2m, in order to expand its Posterscope business....
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003: MyTravel is to sell its US cruise operations to National Leisure Group for £66m, and its SunTrips and Vacation Express tour operating businesses...
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003: Safa Group, the supplier of healthcare and first aid products, is to be acquired by Healthcare Enterprise Group in a £12m deal....
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003: The property company Chelsfield has put itself up for sale after rejecting a proposal by its Chairman, Elliot Bernerd, to take the group private. The ...
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: Lookers has acquired the Lexus Hadleigh car dealership in Essex from E&H Hadleigh for £2m....
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: Huntsworth has acquired Haslimann Taylor, the Sutton Coldfield-based public relations company, for an initial £1.3m....
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: Ernst & Young is to sell its network of nine independent financial advisers to Cavanagh Group of West Sussex for £4.2m, which will involve t...
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: The London Golf Club in Kent has been acquired by the Bendinat Group for less than £10m....
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: Harvey Nash has acquired Snowdogs, the US-based IT recruitment company, for up to £2.7m....
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: ISIS Equity Partners has supported a £19m management buy-out of The Art Group, the producer of prints, posters and cards....
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: ECI Partners is to support a £25m management buy-out of The Learning Library, the provider of distance learning courses in IT and accounting....
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: American Electric Power aims to sell the two power stations it owns in the UK by the end of 2004, virtually ending a wave of U.S. investment in the Br...
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003: The world's biggest manufacturer of genetically modified (GM) crops, US company Monsanto, has been haemorrhaging money. And now it has said it pl...
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Sun, 19 Oct 2003: Telecoms group Kingston Communications is set to be broken up in a deal likely to see rival Thus taking a large share of the business. Smaller divisio...
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Sat, 18 Oct 2003: British Oil giant BP is panning to sell some or all of its Russian oil and gas fields bought when it formed its TKN-BP partnership. Analysts say BP co...
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Fri, 17 Oct 2003: Eddie Stobart, the haulage company with about 1,500 staff, is to be acquired by WA Developments International of Appleby for undisclosed terms...
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Fri, 17 Oct 2003: Top Ten Holdings is to acquire eight bingo clubs and four adjacent amusement arcades from the administrators of Northumbrian Entertainments and NB Mas...
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Fri, 17 Oct 2003: Four private equity groups are vying to buy Tussauds Group, owner of attractions such as Alton Towers and Chessington World of Adventures, a stake in ...
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