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Division Sale Acquisitions News: 2005

Wed, 21 Dec 2005: Lloyds TSB is to sell its Goldfish credit card business to Morgan Stanley of the US for £1bn....
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Wed, 21 Dec 2005: Unilever is to sell Mora, its Dutch snack foods business with annual sales of £70m, to Ad van Geloven for undisclosed terms....
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Fri, 16 Dec 2005: Cookson Group is to sell its Laminates business, which supplies substrate materials for the manufacture of printed circuit boards, to Isola Group for ...
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Fri, 02 Dec 2005: Aquilo has sold its AccidentCare membership services business to Broker Assistance for £0.4m, as part of on ongoing partnership between the two ...
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Fri, 02 Dec 2005: Fraikin has bought the Coventry-based commercial vehicle division of Lex Transfleet from RAC for undisclosed terms, which will involve the transfer of...
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Wed, 30 Nov 2005: Rentokil Initial is to sell Initial Style Conferences, the operator of 29 training and conference venues, to Alternative Hotel Group for £325m....
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Mon, 28 Nov 2005: Man Group has sold the European operations of the recently-acquired Refco brokerage business to Marathon Asset Management of the US for undisclosed te...
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Thu, 24 Nov 2005: Erinaceous has acquired Mount Street Holdings, the property services company with 700 staff, from Regis Capital for up to £56m....
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Tue, 22 Nov 2005: Stagecoach is to sell its New Zealand bus and ferry operations to Infratil for about £100m....
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Tue, 22 Nov 2005: Cadbury Schweppes is to sell its European drinks division, which has 3,000 staff in 30 countries, to private equity firms Blackstone Group and Lion Ca...
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Wed, 02 Nov 2005: Premier Foods has acquired Cauldron Foods, the Bristol-based meat-free products manufacturer with 215 staff, from Rayner & Co for £27m....
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Wed, 02 Nov 2005: Intertek is to acquire Automotive Research Laboratory, the US-based automotive fuels testing company with 144 staff, from PerkinElmer for £20m....
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Tue, 01 Nov 2005: Neteller has acquired Netinvest and its Netbanx subsidiary, the Cambridge-based payment service provider, from Transact Group for £12m....
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Tue, 01 Nov 2005: Vodafone is to sell its Swedish mobile phone operation to Telenor of Norway for £704m....
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005: Graham's Dairies has acquired Scottish Milk Dairies from First Milk for undisclosed terms, after rival firm Robert Wiseman dropped its bid....
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005: GUS has sold Wehkamp, its Dutch home shopping business, to Industri Kapital for £265m....
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Fri, 28 Oct 2005: Avecia is to sell its pharmaceutical synthesis business to Nicholas Piramal India for £9.5m, involving the transfer of 350 staff at sites in Hud...
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Thu, 27 Oct 2005: Centaur has acquired two logistics magazines - Supply Chain Business and Logistics Europe - from UK Transport Press for £0.3m....
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Thu, 27 Oct 2005: Laird Group has acquired Melcor Corporation, the US supplier of thermoelectric modules, and its Chinese subsidiary Melcor Hua Yua from Fedders Corpora...
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Wed, 26 Oct 2005: Marconi is to sell its telecoms equipment and international services operations to Ericsson for about £1.2bn, and the remaining Marconi business...
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