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Acquisitions News: March 2004

Wed, 31 Mar 2004: John Palin, the Matlock-based fruit and vegetable wholesaler with 60 staff, has undergone a management buy-out...
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Wed, 31 Mar 2004: Fishers, the laundry and textile rental company with 600 staff at sites in Fife, Perth and Aberfeldy, has undergone a £31m management buy-out ba...
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Wed, 31 Mar 2004: Greater London Enterprise has sold GLE Development Capital, its private equity arm, to UK Matrix Group, creating a new fund management company called ...
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Tue, 30 Mar 2004: Howell Petersen has acquired The Knowledge, the small Cardiff-based event management consultancy, in order to expand its range of marketing services...
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Tue, 30 Mar 2004: Elite Strategies is to sell ESP Financial, ESP Investments & Pensions and Croesus Financial Services to Croesus Holdings for £0.15m, leaving...
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Mon, 29 Mar 2004: Aston Villa has received a £30m takeover approach led by Ray Ranson, the former Manchester City footballer turned financier. The statement from...
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Fri, 26 Mar 2004: Steven Cohen, the UK managing director of Courts, the furniture retailer, is rumoured to be preparing an estimated £80m bid for the company&rsqu...
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Thu, 25 Mar 2004: Analysts have heightened their calls for National Australia Bank to divest its four poorly performing banks in the UK: Clydesdale Bank in Scotland, ...
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Wed, 24 Mar 2004: Brian Buchan paid the price for failing to sell SSL International's medical business to 3i on Tuesday, agreeing to step aside as chief executive ...
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Tue, 23 Mar 2004: The Face, the magazine that became the style bible during the 1980's, has been put up for sale. Emap, one of the leading UK magazine publishers, ...
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Tue, 23 Mar 2004: PPL Therapeutics, the biotech company behind Dolly the cloned sheep, today confirmed it was in takeover talks that could save it from liquidation. Edi...
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Tue, 23 Mar 2004: The owners of Kwik-Fit, the British car tires and exhausts business, have said that they are evaluating ways to exit the business. A flotation of Kwik...
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Mon, 22 Mar 2004: Forth Ports is being linked to a £500m bid for Teesport, the North of England business which is likely to be sold by its Japanese parent. Ports ...
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Fri, 19 Mar 2004: Marylebone Warwick Balfour, the hotel and serviced offices group, has extended its plans to dispose of assets and return cash to shareholders by two y...
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Fri, 19 Mar 2004: Spherion Corporation, the IT recruitment, technology and outsourcing provider, is divesting its Asia-Pacific, UK and European operations. The move fol...
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004: Bid talks at Egg are faltering after two bidders walked away from the process. One of them is believed to have been Royal Bank of Scotland. The main i...
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004: Laurel Pub Company has hired N M Rothschild to handle a sale worth up to £500m. The investment bank has been asked to sell all 619 pubs in the c...
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004: Investors in DFS, the furniture retailer, have indicated that they will reject an offer by company founder Lord Kirkham to take the company private. K...
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004: More than 38% shareholders in Londis, the retail franchise chain, are seeking to block its sale, according to a poll. If the sale is not approved at t...
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004: Doughty Hanson, the venture capital firm, is considering a possible London stock market flotation of Umbro, the sponsor of the England football team, ...
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