Acquisitions News: August 2008

Fri, 29 Aug 2008: Charisma Colourprint, the Sheffield-based commercial printing firm, has been bought out of administration by Progressive Print Solutions of Leeds. 34 ...
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008: Bodycote is to sell its Testing Strategic Business Unit to Clayton Dubilier & Rice for £417m. The sale is to inlude 130 laboratories in over...
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008: Courier company, Amtrak, has stepped into administration resulting in the loss of 1,000 jobs, and leaving many retailers and customers in the lurch. Ernst & Young LLP have been appointed as administrators. The company was used by a large number of retailers and distributors including Dabs, Empire Direct and Digital Dir...
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008: There has been recent speculation of a takeover bid for J Sainsbury. It is thought that the Qatari Investment Authority (QIA) was working on a bid wit...
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008: Bodycote, the engineering group, has sold its testing business to private equity group Clayton, Dubilier and Rice for £417m. The specialist ther...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: Les Engineering, the Grimsby-based project management and fabrication company with 700 employees, has been acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group of the...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: Triton Group has bought VisualSoft, the Aberdeen-based subsea services firm with nine employees....
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: Countrywide Residential Lettings has purchased Specialist Lettings Management, the chain of nine letting agencies in Blackpool, Bolton, Brighouse, Don...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: Knowles Surfacing, the Ellesmere Port-based road surfacing company with 32 employees, has undergone a management buy-in for undisclosed terms....
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: Melrose has bought the Canadian and Welsh operations of Fishercast Global Corporation, the manufacturer of high-precision zinc and magnesium component...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: United Business Media has purchased Pyramid Research, the telecoms market research company with 50 employees in the US, London and Hong Kong, for &pou...
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: Proventec has bought a 60% stake in Frank, the German manufacturer of hygienic products and high pressure washers with 25 employees....
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008: LV, formerly known as Liverpool Victoria, is going to buy Highway Insurance Group for £...
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008: Guiton Group has sold Channel Island Newsagents, the Jersey-based chain of 12 convenience stores, to Channel Island Wholesale Group for an undisclosed...
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008: Imperial Energy, the oil exploration firm, is to be acquired by ONGC of India for £1.4bn....
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008: Hill & Smith is going to buy Creative Pultrusions, the US manufacturer of glass-reinforced plastic products, in a deal worth £10m....
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008: Kelan Circuits has bought the assets of MI Watson, the Leicestershire-based supplier of electric motor components, for an undisclosed amount....
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008: Sareum Holdings has sold some of the assets of its Sareum drug discovery service subsidiary to Galapagos of the Netherlands for £600k. Five staf...
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Tue, 26 Aug 2008: Axon, the Surrey-based IT services firm with 2,000 employees, has agreed to be purchased by Infosys Technologies of India for £407m....
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Tue, 26 Aug 2008: Forth Ports is likely to come under pressure this week from some shareholders to realize value from disposals or a demerger, Scotland on Sunday reported. The report quoted one shareholder with a substantial holding in the UK-listed ports operator, who said an auction of Forth’s ports arm would be “logical,” adding that the ports business would be very attractive to infrastructure inves...
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