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Merger Acquisitions News: 2004

Mon, 20 Dec 2004: Wilkin Chapman, the law firm with 178 staff at offices in Grimsby, Lincoln, Cleethorpes, Louth, and Horncastle, has merged with Cooper & Wright of...
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Mon, 13 Dec 2004: Rigblast is to merge with MacGregor Energy and Mach-Ten Offshore, creating a combined Aberdeen-based oil services group called RBG with 2,500 staff...
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Mon, 13 Dec 2004: Investec is to merge its Carr Sheppards Crosthwaite division with Rensburg, creating a combined stockbroking business with 12 branches across the coun...
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Thu, 09 Dec 2004: Arla Foods is to merge with Campina of the Netherlands, creating a combined dairy business called Campina Arla with 28,000 staff...
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Mon, 06 Dec 2004: DLA is planning to merge with Piper Rudnick of the US to create an international law firm with 6,000 staff in 18 countries...
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Mon, 29 Nov 2004: Wilson Storey Halliday has merged with Baxter Smith, creating a combined contract catering business known as Baxter Storey with annual sales of more t...
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Fri, 12 Nov 2004: Melloy Castings of Newport and MCL Engineering of Pontyclun have merged to form a new aluminium components group with 50 staff...
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Fri, 05 Nov 2004: Randgold Resources, the South African gold miner, is seeking a merger with a UK or USA-based mining company as a way of expanding outside of Africa. A...
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Wed, 08 Sep 2004: Chadwick Lawrence is to merge with Steven Bonfield Solicitors, creating a combined law firm with about 155 staff and six offices across West Yorkshire...
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Mon, 23 Aug 2004: Video Island is to merge with Screen Select to create the country's largest online DVD rental company...
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Fri, 13 Aug 2004: Mobileway is to merge with InphoMatch of the US to create a combined mobile content and messaging interoperability business with about 200 staff...
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Mon, 09 Aug 2004: Millfield is planning to merge with Inter-Alliance, creating a combined independent financial advisory group with 1,850 advisers...
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Tue, 27 Jul 2004: Virtue Broadcasting is to merge with World Television Group, in a £18m deal designed to increase their share of the corporate communications mar...
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Mon, 26 Jul 2004: Asquith Court is to merge with Kids Unlimited, creating a combined group of 145 day nurseries under the name of Nursery Years Group...
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Mon, 05 Jul 2004: Fitzpatrick Doorframes has merged with FW Watkins to create a combined Birmingham-based industrial doors and shutters business with annual sales of &p...
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Tue, 29 Jun 2004: Bentley Jennison is to merge with WBS, the accountancy firm with offices in Leeds and Harrogate, creating a combined group with 50 partners and more t...
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Wed, 09 Jun 2004: Strakan Pharmaceuticals is to merge with Proskelia of France, in order to create a combined skin, bone and hormone disorder company with a valuation o...
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Thu, 03 Jun 2004: Donegal Creameries is to merge its Carbury Mushrooms business with Monaghan Middlebrook, creating Europe's largest mushroom supplier...
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Wed, 26 May 2004: Cunningham John is to merge with Few & Kester of Cambridge, creating a combined East Anglian law firm with 23 partners called Kester Cunningham Jo...
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Tue, 25 May 2004: ITV's chief executive Charles Allen has confirmed that he wants to divest "non-core" divisions of the business, such as Carlton Screen ...
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