Division Sale Acquisitions News: 2008

Tue, 23 Dec 2008: Aviva has sold its vehicle checking services business, HPI Limited with £112m in assets, to Solera Holdings, the US private equity-backed claims...
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Tue, 23 Dec 2008: Management at Informa are reviewing its businesses as it considers ways to reduce its debt to below £1bn. It is most likely that some businesses will be sold, which may include Informa's performance improvement arm. The training business, which operates mainly in the US, has a value of £202m. Informa's half-year results in July, recorded its ne...
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Tue, 16 Dec 2008: Cadbury's is preparing to sell of its Australia Beverages business to allow it to concentrate on confectionery. It has been suggested that a sale...
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Tue, 16 Dec 2008: Royal Bank of Scotland is unlikely to sell its insurance units after struggling to attract bids. The units, which include the Direct Line and Churchil...
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Thu, 11 Dec 2008: IQ Holdings is to acquire Viewpoint Field, Viewpoint Studios and The Wire from Illuminas for an initial £0.7m, in order to expand its data colle...
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Thu, 11 Dec 2008: Manpower Software is to acquire certain assets of Baum Hart & Partners, the supplier of software and support services to the NHS with 15 staff in ...
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Fri, 28 Nov 2008: It is likely that the Royal Mint and the Land Registery amongst others will be sold as the govenment aim to raise funds to compensate for the over-str...
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Fri, 28 Nov 2008: Duke Street, the private equity owners of the maker of Wagon Wheels, Burton's Foods, has hired Stamford Partners to carry out a strategic review ...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2008: Argos, a division of Home Retail Group, has bought the Alba and Bush trademarks from Alba in a deal worth £15.25m. Alba is subsequently going to...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008: The government is to sell off a whole raft of state owned institutions such as the Met Office, mapmaker Ordnance Survey and the Forestry Commission. ...
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Thu, 20 Nov 2008: Hill & Smith is to sell its Express Reinforcements steel reinforcing bars subsidiary to Celsa Steel Service for £13m....
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008: Credit Suisse is considering selling Global Investors, its long-only funds division. Possible buyers include Schroders and Aberdeen Asset Management. ...
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Fri, 14 Nov 2008: The UK's largest housebuilder, Taylor Wimpey, is going to sell its portfolio of 350 show homes for around £100m and pay rental income to the buyer for three years, in order to reduce its debt of £1.9bn. The buyer would acquire a guar...
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Thu, 13 Nov 2008: Network Data is to acquire Mortgage Broking Services, the Manchester-based mortgage broker, from Manchester Building Society for £2.5m....
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Tue, 11 Nov 2008: Aimimage has bought the assets of London-based camera hire firm Ice Film Equipment out of liquidation, securing seven jobs....
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Tue, 11 Nov 2008: Avon Rubber has sold its Westbury-based rubber mixing facility to ATR Compounding for £2m, with the transfer of nine staff....
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Mon, 10 Nov 2008: Electroworld, owned by electrical retailer DSG, has been put on the market. Electroworld is DSG's Central and Eastern European division, with ove...
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Fri, 07 Nov 2008: Virgin Media may dispose of its content subsidiary, which includes the channels Virgin 1, Dave and Watch....
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Wed, 05 Nov 2008: Greenbank Materials Handling has acquired the industrial weighing division of Mansfield-based H&H Services for undisclosed terms....
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