Acquisitions News: August 2010

Tue, 31 Aug 2010: The French-owned company CPC Packaging, which has its UK headquarters in Knapps Lane on the Fishponds Trading Estate, has fallen into administration, ...
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010: The home shopping business Express Gifts could be put up for sale by its owner Findel, which is carrying out a strategic review of its divisions. Expr...
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010: Prezzo is to expand its chain of 130 restaurants with the acquisition of 11 Caffe Uno, Il Bertorelli and Brasserie Gerard leaseholds from Paramount Re...
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010: Corus is in negotiations to sell the mothballed Teesside Cast Products plant to SSI of Thailand, which could create hundreds of new jobs from 2011....
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010: Bland, Burgess & Hethershaw has been bought out of administration by a management team, securing 11 jobs at its Gainsborough-based metal working b...
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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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Tue, 31 Aug 2010: Orchid Group has sold the Bel and The Dragon chain of four pubs in Cookham, Godalming, Reading and Windsor to Longshot for £4m, and Longshot aim...
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010: Mobberley-based Concierge Travel Service Ltd, which took bookings for Go Travel, has fallen into administration. Sources close to the company said the...
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Fri, 27 Aug 2010: Begbies Traynor is seeking a buyer for Humberside Optical Services Ltd, which provides optical glazing and frame repair services to independent optici...
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010: Sheet metal works business Bland Burgess & Hethershaw has recently been rescued out of administration in an MBO deal. The Lincolnshire firm entere...
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010: North Yorkshire waste management company BCB Environmental Management has fallen into administration following a fire at the premises earlier this month....
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010: Trianco Heating Products, the Sheffield-based boiler manufacturer, has sold its assets out of administration to TR Engineering....
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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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Thu, 26 Aug 2010: Herbert Industrial, the label equipment manufacturer with 50 staff in Haverhill and Oldham, has undergone a buy-out for undisclosed terms....
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010: Parseq is to acquire certain assets of Avance Group and Avance Rutherglen, the business process outsourcing firm, for £0.5m....
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010: Compass Group is to acquire VSG Group, the security services firm with 6,000 staff and offices in Northampton, London, Belfast and Dublin, for £...
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Wed, 25 Aug 2010: Dubai International Capital LLC has put British hospital scanner firm, Alliance Medical Ltd, on the market after restructuring talks failed. It is ant...
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Wed, 25 Aug 2010: Just a year after coffee chain Coffee Republic was bought out of administration by Arab Investments, it has signed a deal to sell to sell its coffee i...
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Wed, 25 Aug 2010: T Clarke has acquired DG Robson, the Essex-based mechanical services contractor, for up to £6.1m....
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Tue, 24 Aug 2010: Following the news that Dundee-based games company Realtime Worlds had fallen into administration, some of the staff have been re-employed as the firm hunts for a buyer as a smaller entity....
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