Acquisitions News: October 2010

Fri, 29 Oct 2010: Successful outdoor clothing chain, GO Outdoors, is one of a number of companies understood to have approached beleaguered activity sports chain, Blacks, with a view to making a takeover offer....
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Fri, 29 Oct 2010: Industrial supplies distributor, James Lister & Sons, has been purchased in an MBO by the great great grandsons of the original ow...
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010: Innovise is to acquire Expolink Software of Chippenham from Expolink Europe for £0.9m....
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010: Fresh Service has acquired the Paddock Wood and Sheerness depots of Sheffield-based haulage firm RW Simpson Transport for undisclosed terms, with the ...
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010: Blackburn Rovers Football Club is to be acquired by Venkateshwara Hatcheries of India for £46m....
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010: A £3 million loan has been awarded to two businessmen to assist with their purchase of one of Belfast city centre's most important ...
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010: Targetfollow has lost its recent battle in court against being pushed into administration. Lloyds Banking Group appointed Deloitte to proceed with the administration procedure for subsidiary Targetfollow Property Holdings after winning in the High Court case....
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010: A selection of pubs and hotels are on the market in the Cambridgeshire area....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: Metclad Contracts, the Nottinghamshire-based roofing and cladding firm with annual turnover of £15m, has undergone a management buy-out for undi...
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: Brokerbility of Leicester has acquired a controlling stake in O'Connor & Co, the Northampton-based insurance firm with 42 staff, for £2...
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: Morgan Lambert, the Selby-based gas safety consultancy with 27 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: Potteries Tyres, the Stoke-based supplier of tyres with 14 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: Vickers Laboratories, the Leeds-based distributor of speciality chemicals with 22 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: David Brown is to sell its Applied Products division, including the Radicon and Benzlers gearbox brands, to Elecon of India....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: AFH Wealth Management has acquired Rosa Lodge Financial Management, the Birmingham-based independent financial adviser....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: Aegon UK is to sell its HS Admin third-party pensions administration business in Daresbury to Goddard Perry for undisclosed terms, securing the future...
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: Brit Insurance, the Lloyd's of London insurer, has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Apollo and CVC for £888m....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: According to the new IPD/Society of Chartered Surveyors index, those who have invested in Irish commercial property have achieved far better returns that those investing in shares....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: A Perthshire hotel, owned by former personal chef to Nelson Mandela, Pete Gottgens, has entered administration....
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010: A question mark is hanging over the future of employees and residents at three care homes, after their operator went into administration....
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