Acquisitions News: June 2010

Wed, 30 Jun 2010: Servosteel, the Dudley-based steel processing company, has been acquired by Essar Steel International of India....
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: HR Owen has acquired the business and assets of an Audi car franchise in Wandsworth from the Dutton-Forshaw subsidiary of Lookers for £1.1m....
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: Vertu Motors has acquired two Vauxhall car franchises in Crewe and Macclesfield out of administration for £1.5m....
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: Motive Television has sold its Brown Eyed Boy TV production subsidiary to Shine Group in a £0.2m deal....
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: RSM Tenon has bought certain assets of Vantis out of administration for up to £6.8m, including offices in London, Leicester and Epsom and the tr...
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: SDL has acquired Xopus, the Dutch provider of online XML editing services, for an initial £1.3m....
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: XPD8 Solutions, the Aberdeen-based oil services firm, has undergone a £6m management buy-out backed by Maven Capital Partners, and plans to doub...
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010: Waldeck has acquired Elliott & Brown, the Nottingham-based civil and structural engineering consultancy....
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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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Tue, 29 Jun 2010: Rentokil Initial has acquired Knightsbridge Guarding and Perception UK of London for a total £6.9m, in order to expand its facilities services d...
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Tue, 29 Jun 2010: CKD Galbraith has acquired Donalds, the Ayrshire-based firm of chartered surveyors....
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Tue, 29 Jun 2010: Recruitment and training business RTC Group has put its rail training arm Catalis Limited into administration, due to financial problems and a lack of confidence over future industry spending....
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Mon, 28 Jun 2010: Free-to-air channel Film24 has been placed on the market by its main shareholder Angad Paul, who chose to withdraw his funding support from the business last month....
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Mon, 28 Jun 2010: Manchester legal firm Halliwells is one of the first legal outfits to face administration. Last week, it filed a bid to hire an administrator at the courts....
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Fri, 25 Jun 2010: Fabric nightclub has been rescued from administration by a newly formed company set up by one of its former investors, saving 100 jobs....
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Fri, 25 Jun 2010: An entrepreneur who set up an eBay business selling seconds for the popular clothing company Superdry has been bought out by the latter's parent company for £...
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Thu, 24 Jun 2010: Vale Contract Services, the North Wales-based landscaping firm with 225 staff, has been acquired by Ground Control Holdings of Essex for undisclosed t...
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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, 24 Jun 2010: Peel Group has sold a 65% stake in its airports in Liverpool, Doncaster and Durham to Vancouver Airport Services of Canada for about £170m....
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