Merger Acquisitions News: 2010

Tue, 30 Nov 2010: The British Film Institute is to take on the responsibilities of the axed UK Film Council, including the allocation of the £15m lottery fund for...
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Wed, 17 Nov 2010: Northern Foods is to merge with Greencore to create a new food manufacturing group called Essenta Foods, including combined annual sales of £1.7...
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Tue, 16 Nov 2010: Pagoda Public Relations has acquired Morhamburn Consultancy to create a combined Edinburgh-based public relations agency with 15 staff....
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Wed, 29 Sep 2010: Sills & Betteridge Solicitors has merged with Godsons of Sleaford to create a combined Lincolnshire-based law firm with 143 staff....
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010: ImmunoSolv of Edinburgh has merged with Grampian BioConsultants of Aberdeen for undisclosed terms, having secured additional funding from Grampian Bio...
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010: Hammonds is in merger talks with US-based Squire Saunders & Dempsey, which would create a global law firm with about 1,700 lawyers in 17 countries...
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Tue, 10 Aug 2010: Tower Supplies of Bury has merged with SCR Envelopes of Leeds to create a combined envelope printing group with 60 staff....
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Tue, 20 Jul 2010: Sevenoaks Sound & Vision is to merge with Audio T to create a combined group of 50 hi-fi stores....
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Tue, 06 Jul 2010: Travis Perkins is to acquire BSS Group for £558m, creating a combined plumbing and heating supplies group with 19,000 staff....
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Tue, 06 Jul 2010: Irish Dairy Board is to merge its Kerrygold cheese factory in Leek and its Somerset-based North Downs Dairy into a single group called Adams Foods in ...
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: Tax group Vantis has offloaded its advisory business to RSM Tenon, in a deal worth £7 million as part of a broader drive to dispose of its UK accounting, tax, business recovery and advisory divis...
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Thu, 24 Jun 2010: Hopper Howe Sadler and Reid Jubb Brown have merged to create a combined Newcastle-based firm of architects called Sadler Brown....
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Thu, 10 Jun 2010: Greenstar UK is to be acquired by Montagu Private Equity and Global Infrastructure Partners for £135m, and will be merged with their existing Bi...
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Tue, 08 Jun 2010: Shakespeare Putsman of Birmingham is to merge with Stratford-based Needham & James to create a combined law firm with 320 staff....
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Thu, 03 Jun 2010: Motan of Abingdon is to merge with Colortronic of Chesterfield to form a new plastics processing group called Motan-Colortronic....
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Tue, 01 Jun 2010: Cathedral Financial Management of Exeter has merged with DMA Financial Planning of Plymouth....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: Denton Wilde Sapte is planning to merge with US-based Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to create a global law firm called SNR Denton with 1,400 lawye...
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Wed, 26 May 2010: Phoenix Beard is to merge with GBR to create a combined Birmingham-based property group with more than 70 staff....
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Thu, 06 May 2010: Haas-Tek Services has acquired ACE Engineering, the stainless steel fabrication firm, to create a combined Lockerbie-based engineering group with 59 s...
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Thu, 06 May 2010: ZooBiotic of Bridgend has acquired BioMonde of Germany for undisclosed terms, creating a combined wound healing group with annual sales of £5m....
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