Acquisitions News: September 2008

Tue, 30 Sep 2008: Centrica has acquired Solar Technologies Group, the solar energy installation contractor, for £2.8m....
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008: Norton & Townsend, the London-based network of bespoke tailors, has been bought out of administration by Salts of Saltaire for undisclosed terms....
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008: Cobra Holdings has acquired Opal Mortgage Life & Pensions, the London-based independent financial adviser, for up to £0.5m....
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008: Spice has acquired Mono Services, the Eccles-based housing maintenance firm with 123 staff, from Mavinwood for £0.5m....
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008: Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised with the government acquiring its £50bn mortgages and loans, while its £20bn savings business...
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008: Motor World stores in Abergavenny, Ebbw Vale, Blackwood and Newport failed to open unexpectedly after going into administration. ...
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008: Watson Norie, electrical and instrumentation contractor has fallen into administration. Joint administrators Ian Green and Mark Loftus of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP are now seeking buyers for all of the business or part of it....
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008: STP Group, one of the UK’s biggest door manufacturers has fallen into administration. Ernest & Young, who have been appointed as the administrators, are currently continuing to trade the b...
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008: Amcor Flexibles has sold their Thetford-based barrier film plant, AF Camvac, to manufacturing investment specialist, Gil Investments....
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008: Porcelain manufacturer Royal Worcester have appointed accountancy firm KPMG to find a rescue buyer for the business. ...
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008: Bloomsbury Publishing is going to buy Oxford International Publishers, the Oxford-based independent academic publishing company trading as Berg with 1...
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008: Wessex Incineration is being forced to make staff redundant after it went into administration recently. Almost 30 hauliers had contracts with the company, many of which are still owed money. Several hauliers have asked the RPA to withhold money to Wessex Incineration....
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008: Hardy Amies, the fashion house whose clients have included the Queen, Beatles and Rolling Stones, could go into administration after a major sharehold...
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008: Avent Engineering, the Bristol-based utility contractor, has gone into administration. Avent had lost a Western Power distribution contract to Balfour Beatty which rendered the firm in serious financial difficulties....
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008: Archbold Logistics has bought Direct Pallet Services, the Nuneaton-based transport firm with 52 employees and 30 vehicles....
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008: AESSEAL is to transfer production of some mechanical seals from India to Rotherham following the acquisition of Standard Seals of India. AESSEAL has a...
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008: TRO, the events agency with 150 staff in Norwich and Wymondham, has been bought by CPM Group for an undisclosed amount....
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008: Griffiths & Armour is to sell its financial services division to Charles Stanley. 35 Liverpool-based employees will be transferred....
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008: Folder Media has bought Fun Radio, the children's broadcaster, for an undisclosed amount....
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008: St Ives is to dispose of its Dutch music and multimedia business to management in a deal worth £2.1m....
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