Acquisitions News | october | 2003

Tue, 07 Oct 2003: Grafton Group has acquired Plumbline Supplies, the Scottish chain of 17 plumbing merchants, as well as the Telfords chain of three branches in Ireland...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2003: William Jacks has acquired Jaguar and Land Rover dealerships in Maidstone from Dutton Forshaw for £2.3m....
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Tue, 07 Oct 2003: Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its mortgage insurance business to PMI Group of the US for a nominal sum....
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Tue, 07 Oct 2003: Cobham has acquired Harrison, the US manufacturer of fluid connectors for aircraft, from Sierracin for £6m....
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Tue, 07 Oct 2003: The celebrity agency First Artist, which has Fredrik Ljungberg, James Beattie and Kevin Phillips as clients, is understood to have put itself up for s...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2003: A bidding war for do-it-yourself retailer B&Q is possible after meetings between B&Q's parent company Kingfisher and Lowe. Home Depot, th...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2003: Credit Suisse First Boston, the investment bank, has put Cabot Financial, a consumer credit and collection firm, up for sale for £100m. However...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: Pendragon has sold Mercedes-Benz dealerships in Northampton and Bedford to United Auto Group in a £6.4m deal....
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: Airsprung Furniture has sold Sprung Slumber, the Okehampton-based bed manufacturer, to Reylon for £5.4m....
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: GX Networks is to acquire Pipex, the internet service provider, for £55m, and the combined group will be renamed Pipex Communications....
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: Bradford & Bingley is to acquire Douglas Duff, the commercial surveying firm, for undisclosed terms....
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: Brockington & Scott, the Pontarddulais-based bellows manufacturer with more than 70 staff, has been bought out of administration by a management t...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: Marlows of Bury St Edmunds, the timber company with 200 staff, has been bought out of receivership by a newly-formed company owned by the Howarth Timb...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: Britannia Biscuits, the Teesside-based food manufacturer, has been bought out of receivership by a new company called Britannia Biscuits International...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: Insurance group Prudential has put its stake in online bank Egg up for sale, it was reported today....
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: AN POST is to sell off its mobile-phone top-up operations in the UK and Spain in deals that are expected to raise up to €40m. The British subsidi...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2003: American leisure group Carlson Wagonlit has emerged as a front-runner to buy the bulk of the US businesses put up for sale by troubled UK tour operato...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2003: Reg Vardy has sold an Audi dealership in Leicester to John Fox for GBP 1m and a Vauxhall dealership site in Nottingham to CIS for £10m....
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Fri, 03 Oct 2003: Amec has acquired certain assets of Lauren Kamtech, the US provider of construction and maintenance services for pulp, paper and power plants, for &po...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2003: Macfarlane has sold its plastics business to Tyco for £48m, as part of a strategy to focus on packaging and distribution, and has also announced...
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