Acquisitions News | october | 2003

Mon, 13 Oct 2003: Parker Plant, the Leicester-based manufacturer of stone-crushing equipment, has been bought out of receivership by the executive chairman of Universal...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003: SA Brain has acquired William Stedman, the Caerleon-based beer, wine and spirits merchant with 27 staff...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003: Systems Union Group is to acquire MIS, the German business management software company with 460 staff, for £24m...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003: Dunlop Slazenger, the tennis and golf company owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, has been put up for sale. Dunlop Slazenger is expected to attract i...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003: Swiss engineering firm Georg Fischer said it would cease manufacturing at its British foundry in Lincoln as part of a far-reaching profit enhancement ...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003: Ben Sherman, the shirt maker that has reinvented itself as a fashion brand, is to be offered for sale by its controlling shareholder, 3i. The private ...
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Sat, 11 Oct 2003: The owner of holiday resort firm Center Parcs UK has reportedly put it up for sale for more than 300 million pounds. MidOcean, a private equity firm s...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Over the coming months, Munich-based HVB is aiming to divest Bethmann, a small private bank, and a €200m stake in brewer Brau und Brunnen. Coutts...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: TJ Hughes owner JJB Sports has finally confirmed the chain is up for sale, with analysts predicting a profit of up to £30m. Negotiations have be...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Energy bourse UK Power Exchange, which has been put up for sale by its Swedish parent OM, has said that a redesign of its futures contracts and its ab...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Lloyds TSB is to sell part of its Brazilian business to HSBC for £490m, including its consumer lending operation and Banco Multiplo....
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Korway Foods has bought Camp Brothers, the Lanarkshire-based ice cream manufacturer with 32 staff, out of receivership....
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Reeves & Neylan has sold its Norwich-based accountancy operation to management for undisclosed terms, creating a new firm called Argents....
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: EMG Ford has acquired Ford car dealerships in King's Lynn and Wisbech from The John Grose Group for undisclosed terms....
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Bewise, the chain of clothing stores, has been acquired by QS Group of Brighton for undisclosed terms, creating a combined group with 372 stores....
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Royal Bank of Scotland's Coutts Bank subsidiary is to acquire Bank von Ernst, the Switzerland-based private banking division of Bayerische Hypo-u...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: BP is to sell its specialist oil products business to H&R WASAG of Germany, including manufacturing plants in Chorley, Tipton, Germany and the Net...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Australian AMP has so far failed to find buyers for its troubled British operations and appears to be pushing ahead with its plan to demerge its UK bu...
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Fri, 10 Oct 2003: Following the demise of TXU Energy group last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the joint administrative receivers, continue to progress options for reali...
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Thu, 09 Oct 2003: McLelland Cheese is to acquire Aeron Valley Cheese in Wales from Dairygold, with First Milk retaining a 20% stake....
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