Acquisitions News: May 2010

Mon, 31 May 2010: Following reports last month that the Priory Group, a leading chain of rehabilitation centres and mental hospitals, could be put up for sale, its majority shareholders, Royal Bank of Scotland has finally appointed Rothschild to find a purchaser. RBS faces the prospect of refinancing several billion pounds of commercial property this year....
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Mon, 31 May 2010: The long-established organic dairy food producer Rachel’s Dairy is being put on the market by its US owner, Dean Foods, for a reported £20...
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Fri, 28 May 2010: 130-year-old Scottish knitwear manufacturing firm Peter Scott & Co has been pushed into administration, leaving 150 jobs at r...
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Fri, 28 May 2010: The printing division of CMYK Group Limited has entered administration and ceased to trade, with the loss of 19 staff....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: GO-SIM has bought Oneroam Communications of the US for undisclosed terms, as part of a strategy to become a global supplier of prepaid SIM cards....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: Plain Label Company, the Nottinghamshire-based label printer, has been sold out of administration by SFP to its former directors....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: Orwelco Holdings has bought the assets of the GW Waite components business in Ulverston out of administration, and the 35 staff will relocate to Barro...
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Thu, 27 May 2010: West Bromwich Building Society is to sell its Mortgageforce mortgage broking franchise to management for a nominal sum....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: Garnett Dickinson has acquired Native Publisher Services, the magazine distributor, for undisclosed terms....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: Norwich & Peterborough Insurance Brokers has acquired Spiremark Insurance of Whittlesey....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: Staffline has acquired the trade and assets of DKM Labour Solutions, the Nottingham-based provider of recruitment solutions with 26 staff, in a pre-pa...
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Thu, 27 May 2010: BGlobal is to acquire Utiligroup, the Blackburn-based provider of energy data management and process solutions, for up to £13m....
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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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Thu, 27 May 2010: In an announcement made this morning, David Cameron gave some reassuring, but vague, news concerning CGT - entrepreneurs will be exempt from higher tax rates that would hit small companies....
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Thu, 27 May 2010: Two connected Cheshire haulage and storage businesses DJM Logistics (UK) and DJM Transport have both entered into administration, having buckled under the strain of difficult trading conditions....
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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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Wed, 26 May 2010: Moy Park is to acquire O'Kane Poultry to create a combined poultry processing group with 5,000 of its 8,500 staff in Northern Ireland....
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Wed, 26 May 2010: SurgiCare has acquired Plastic Surgery Partners, the London-based cosmetic surgery practice, for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 26 May 2010: RTL is gearing up to invite bids for Channel 5 after months of speculation about its future....
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Wed, 26 May 2010: Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev is taking steps to dispose of most of its UK beers. The brands for sale are Flowers, Boddingtons and Bass Ale....
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