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News in the Wholesale And Distribution sector
German cement mixer HeidelbergCement plans to dispose of non-core parts of Hanson, the UK building materials supplier business, in an effort to rein in its debt of Euro 11.3bn. [more]
Gaggia UK, the British distributor of professional coffee machines, faces being placed into administration. [more]
Canterbury Group has placed its Cheshire-based European operation into administration. 72 out of 86 employees at Canterbury Europe are to lose their positions. [more]
Sonas Automotive, a car parts firm with 200 employees, has gone into administration, following its largest customer, who has also folded.
Wagon Automotive, was set to go into adminis [more]
UK-based component distributor, Abacus Group plc, has received a number of approaches for the company as it warned of difficult market conditions and falling sales. [more]
Texol Technical Solutions, the developer of bug-catching machines Midgeater and Mosquitoeater, went into administration at the end of February, following a period of poor trading. [more]
The UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has finally agreed to be bought up by Carlsberg and Heineken for £7.8bn ($15.3bn). The company will be be split between Carlsberg and Heineken when the takeover [more]
TA Associates, a leading growth private equity and buyout firm, today announced it has completed a majority investment in M and M Direct Ltd, the leading online and mail order retailer of discounted lifestyle, fashion and sports apparel and footwear in the UK. M and M was formerly majority owned by its founders and ECI Partners. Terms of the transaction were not dis [more]
Premier Farnell plc, the leading multi-channel, high service distributor of essential products and services to millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Hynetic Electronics Pvt Limited to acquire the assets and business carried on by Hynetic in India as an existing authorised distributor of Farnell's produ [more]
Wolseley plc, the world’s largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, has announced five bolt-on acquisitions for an aggregate consideration of &po [more]
Veterinary supplies company W&J Dunlop, one of South West Scotland's biggest employers, has been bought by US firm Henry Schein Inc, one of Europe and North America's largest providers of healthc [more]
Irish Continental, the shipping, transport and leisure group, announced today that it has agreed the terms for a management buyout that values the business at around €471 [more]
WA Developments, the owner of UK haulage company Eddie Stobart could sell the business after hiring BDO Stoy Hayward to examine strategic options. [more]
UK educational products supplier DKL would entertain serious offers for the company despite the fact that it is not actively for sale, according to ma [more]
SigmaKalon, the European paint supplier, is expected to be put up for sale in 2007 for around £1.3m. Owners Bain Capital bought the business in [more]
A source close to Torbay Conversions, the privately-owned supplier of leisure vehicles, has revealed that owner Roger Pattie may consider offers for t [more]
UK caravan dealer Glossop may consider putting the business up for sale in the long term due to succession problems according to insiders. The two own [more]
ISA, the privately-held UK office supplies company, has been put up for sale after owner Brett Palos hired US investment bank Rothschild to seek buyers for the business. [more]
English Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS), the UK's largest rail operator of freight services, could be up for sale following reports that the main shareholders have agreed to sell the gr [more]
TNT, the Dutch mail and express delivery service, has announced plans to sell its freight management division. [more]
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