Acquisitions News: May 2009

Fri, 29 May 2009: Retail property developer Modus Ventures Ltd, has gone into administration. KPMG Restructuring has been appointed to manage the administration process for the company, which owns 40 UK-bsed subsidiary businesses....
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Fri, 29 May 2009: There are rumours circulating that Daniel Fox-Davis is considering selling part of his brokerage Fox-Davis Capital. Speculation has it that he is cons...
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Fri, 29 May 2009: Lloyds TSB has hired BDO Stoy Hayward as administrators for Chessington-based MPG Impressions. The firm's production employees were sent home, le...
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Fri, 29 May 2009: Neil Mather and Mark Fry of Begbies Traynor have been appointed joint administrators to Sage reseller BDE Group....
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Thu, 28 May 2009: Scottish & Southern Energy is to acquire a data centre business from Cantono Data Centre Services for £4.9m, in order to expand its SSE Tele...
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Thu, 28 May 2009: Carpet Tile Factory has been sold out of administration to a new company called Roelandt Lewis for undisclosed terms, securing 34 jobs at its Blaina-b...
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Thu, 28 May 2009: Independent financial adviser, Caversham Buchanan has been placed into administration, after several changes in the business....
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Wed, 27 May 2009: Taylor Lynn Corporation of Manchester has sold its Table Linen Company linen hire business to the owner of Denton-based Just Covered for undisclosed t...
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Wed, 27 May 2009: Xploite is to sell its Anix managed services division to ACS Business Process Solutions for £31m....
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Wed, 27 May 2009: Homeserve has acquired SFG, the French appliance warranty provider with 55 staff, from April Group for £24m....
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Wed, 27 May 2009: AFC Hornchurch has been placed into administration after experiencing financial problems. The club, established for five years, was set up after the collapse of Hornchurch Football Club....
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Tue, 26 May 2009: Clifton Precision Engineering has been bought out of administration, securing ten of the 45 jobs at its Rowley Regis-based tool manufacturing business...
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Tue, 26 May 2009: Aircraft Medical has acquired Morpheus, the Spanish supplier of patient monitoring devices, for undisclosed terms....
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Tue, 26 May 2009: Baker Tilly have been called in to act as administrators to Network Data, Network Data Ltd and Mortgage Broking Solutions Ltd. In April, the group wa...
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Tue, 26 May 2009: Stakes in about 60 companies may be sold as Lloyds Banking Group organises the assets of its acquisition HBOS. ...
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Tue, 26 May 2009: Struggling German company Heidelberg-Cement has put its British building materials supplier business Hanson on the market for over £...
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Fri, 22 May 2009: Property developer Applecross has gone into administration and may hire PriceWaterhouseCoopers to manage the process. ...
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Thu, 21 May 2009: McKinnon & Clarke has acquired Utility Cost Analysis, the Stockport-based energy consultancy with ten staff, for undisclosed terms....
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Thu, 21 May 2009: Chiltern Mills, the Leeds-based textiles retailer, has been acquired by its founder in a pre-pack administration deal....
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Thu, 21 May 2009: The Color Company has acquired five printing branches in London and Reading from FedEx Kinko's for undisclosed terms....
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