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Acquisitions News: October 2006

Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Speedy Hire has acquired Lifting Gear Hire, the lifting equipment rental company with 309 staff at 34 depots, for £13m....
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Catlin is to acquire Wellington Underwriting, the London-based insurance company, for £591m. The deal will create the biggest insurer on the Lloyd's of Lond...
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Kirker Holidays, the London-based upmarket travel company with 45 staff, has been acquired by Kuoni of Switzerland for an estimated £15m....
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Process Combustion, the Harrogate-based supplier of heat transfer equipment with 60 staff, has been acquired by Roberts-Gordon of the US for undisclos...
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Butterfly Hotels has bought the 74-room Cromwell Hotel in Stevenage from Corus Hotels and the 110-room Express by Holiday Inn in Castle Bromwich from ...
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: The Airdrie-based whisky and spirits company, Inver House Distillers, has recently become a subsidiary of International Beverage Holdings, the interna...
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Bayford & Co has acquired Askham Oils, the Penrith-based oil distribution company, for undisclosed terms....
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Swinton has acquired Graysons Insurance Consultants, the taxi insurance broker based in Liverpool, Widnes and Wirral, for undisclosed terms....
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: Biofutures International is planning to acquire Zurex Corporation, the Malaysian company that holds a licence to produce biodiesel derived from palm o...
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Tue, 31 Oct 2006: BioProgress is to acquire the US pharmaceutical trading assets of AirPharma for £4.2m, including 20 brands....
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: Lion Capital is to acquire Contessa, the chain of 66 lingerie stores, for undisclosed terms, and the stores will be converted to the La Senza format....
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: John Laing, the construction group with a portfolio of 50 PFI and PPP projects, has accepted a £957m takeover offer from Allianz of Germany....
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: Collins Stewart Tullett is to acquire Hawkpoint, the corporate advisory firm with 120 staff in London and France, for an estimated £130m, as wel...
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: Atisreal has acquired Fuller Peiser, the commercial property services company with 220 staff at six offices in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester...
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: Azure Solutions has sold its Martlesham-based Advanced Communications Monitoring business to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms....
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: Rexam has confirmed the sale of part of its food plastic packaging operations in Gloucestershire, Sweden and Denmark to an undisclosed buyer for &poun...
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: ClinPhone has acquired Datalabs, the US-based provider of clinical data collection services with 57 staff, for £36m....
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006: has acquired Medscreen, the London-based provider of drug and alcohol testing services with 49 staff in Canary Wharf, 60 UK collection officers and 2...
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Fri, 27 Oct 2006: Vibtech, the Larbert-based developer of seismic testing technology with 12 staff, has been acquired by Sercel of France for £32m....
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Fri, 27 Oct 2006: Rentokil Initial has acquired a further 16 of its City Link franchises through the £25m acquisition of Tiger Haulage, Abbott Enterprises, Hallam...
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