Acquisitions News: 2008

Mon, 27 Oct 2008: Granada Learning, the classroom test supplier, has been put up for sale by its private-equity owner Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) for £55m. Cor...
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008: Hill Station, ice cream manufacturer has been bought out of administration by Loseley Dairy Ice Cream. 60 jobs have been saved....
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008: The company behind the Golden Compass and Harry Potter action figures, PopCo Entertainment UK Limited, has entered into administration. More details have yet to be released....
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008: Coolabi is to acquire Licensing by Design, the children's characters merchandising company, for £0.4m....
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008: Vp is to acquire Power Tool Supplies, the Brighton-based tool hire company, for £1.1m, in order to expand its Hill Station subsidiary....
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008: Wrekin Construction has acquired Toft Johnson, the Staffordshire-based construction company with 35 staff....
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008: Tanker Solutions, bodybuilder and repairer of commercial vehicles, has gone into administration. A buyer must be found soon or the business may have to be wound up. Insolvency practitioner Larking Gowen have been appointed to handle the administration....
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008: Centrica has acquired Semplice Energy, the Reading-based low carbon solutions firm with 21 staff, for £1.5m, in order to expand its British Gas ...
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008: Abbey Protection is to acquire Accountax, the Milton Keynes-based accountancy, tax and employment law consultancy with 40 staff, for an initial £...
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008: Ellis Fairbank, the Leeds-based recruitment firm with 110 staff, has been sold out of administration to IHR Group....
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008: Laing O'Rourke has acquired most of the pre-cast concrete operations of Bison out of administration, including factories in Derbyshire and Glasgo...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008: Northern Petroleum has sold the Waalwijk underground gas storage project in the Netherlands to Star Energy Group for an initial £7m....
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008: Cookson Group is to sell its Hi-Tech Ceramics filters business, which has annual sales of £5m, to Sud-Chemie, in order to win regulatory approva...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008: Syntax, the Derby-based IT and technical recruitment consultancy, has merged with Arcanza IT Services of Derby and Software Training Services of Heano...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008: JT Atkinson & Sons has acquired Hathaway & Hoyle Timber Merchants of Stockton-on-Tees, taking its chain to eight branches....
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008: GlaxoSmithKline is to acquire Biotene, the dry-mouth treatment, from Laclede of the US for £100m, in order to expand its consumer healthcare bus...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008: Evolution Group is to acquire the investment management business of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of abo...
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Tue, 21 Oct 2008: Tom Aikens’s London restaurants have been bought by TA Holdco Ltd, a management buy-out team, after being put into administrat...
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Tue, 21 Oct 2008: The owner of London's Sunrise Radio, Avtar Lit, has put two of its sister stations in the capital, Time 106.8 and South London Radio 107.3, on the ma...
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Tue, 21 Oct 2008: Vitec Group has acquired certain assets of Technologies Talkdynamics, the Canadian software development company, for undisclosed terms....
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