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ACQUIRER TARGET TYPE OF DEAL SECTOR AMOUNT
Highland Spring Speyside Glenlivet Water Company Acquisition Manufacturing Undisclosed
Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions The Driving Instructor Centre Acquisition Manufacturing £11.8 million
Management of company BLP MBO Manufacturing Undisclosed
Management of company Concorde Informatics Acquisition Manufacturing Undisclosed
Multishades Meritmill Merger Manufacturing Undisclosed
Olympus Partners Holopack International Acquisition Manufacturing Undisclosed
OPAC Opacmare Acquisition Manufacturing Undisclosed
PDS Acorn Glass Acquisition Manufacturing Undisclosed
Prince Agri Products Baltzell Agri Products Acquisition Manufacturing Undisclosed
Quilmes Industrial Bebidas y Aguas Gaseosa Occidente SRL Acquisition Manufacturing £19 million
SABMiller Plc Vietnam JV Company 50% stake Manufacturing Undisclosed
Supercart Plc Rehrig International Corp Acquisition Manufacturing £1 million
Watts Industrie Reifen Profix GmbH Acquisition Manufacturing Undisclosed
Associated Newspapers Evening Standard 75% stake Media Undisclosed
M DuMont Schauberg Mecom Plc Acquisition Media £142 million
Metro Group 24-7 Entertainment Acquisition Media Undisclosed
Smiths News Plc Bertram group of companies Acquisition Media £15.6 million
Taylist Media dmg world media Acquisition Media Undisclosed
KME Metalbuyer 30% stake Metals £1.3 million
HM Capital Partners SunTerra Resources Acquisition Mining Undisclosed
Hochschild Mining Plc Southwestern Resources Corp Acquisition Mining £13 million
Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals InB: Hauser Pharmaceutical Services Acquisition Pharmaceuticals Undisclosed
Covance Swiss Pharma Contract Acquisition Pharmaceuticals Undisclosed
Moberg Derma Zelmic Acquisition Pharmaceuticals Undisclosed
MVM Life Science Partners Alliance Pharma Plc 9% stake Pharmaceuticals Undisclosed
ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services Paramax International Acquisition Pharmaceuticals £700,000
RTI International MasiMax Acquisition Pharmaceuticals Undisclosed
Applinet Plc Unified Group Merger PR Undisclosed
Hill & Knowlton Feedback Hill & Knowlton 70% stake PR Undisclosed
Tangent Communications Lateral Acquisition PR Undisclosed
Tangent Communications Lateral Acquisition PR Undisclosed
Avisen Wexner Global Ltd Acquisition Professional Services £120,000
NeuroFocus Neuroco Acquisition Professional Services Undisclosed
Braemar Manchester Ground Rent Company Acquisition Property £410,000
gap personnel Temple Quay Recruitment Merger Recruitment Undisclosed
Fuller, Smith & Turner Plc Punch Taverns Plc Acquisition of certain assets Retail £21.1 million
GED Diamedix 80% stake Retail £11 million
Majestic Wine Plc Law & Wheeler Acquisition Retail £6 million
Natural Collection Ethical Superstore Merger Retail Undisclosed
PBN and Jim O’Neill Wineworld Acquisition Retail Undisclosed
Stardoll Piczo Merger Retail Undisclosed
Sysco Pallas FoodsPallas Foods Acquisition Retail Undisclosed
The Hut Group Zavvi Acquisition Retail Undisclosed
The Tharanco Group Greg Norman Collection Acquisition Retail Undisclosed
Contract Fire Security Premier Planned Maintenance Acquisition Security Undisclosed
LPM Group Temple Security Acquisition Security £12 million
SectorGuard Plc Legion Group Plc Acquisition Security Undisclosed
Westminster Group Plc Longmoor Services Acquisition Security £2.4 million
Aqua Resources Fund Ltd Bluewater Bio International 15% stake Technology Undisclosed
Audemat Group APT Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Calypso Galapagos Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Genesis Communications Increase CRM Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Gennum Tundra Semiconductor Acquisition Technology £48.1 million
Iris ATW Information Technology Systems Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
John Crane Orion Corporation Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Lab21 Biotec Laboratories Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Management of company Diagnos BIMBO Technology Undisclosed
National Semiconductor Act Solar Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) Sense Proteomic Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
RWS Holdings Plc Communicare Acquisition Technology £2.1 million
Snell & Wilcox Pro-Bel Merger Technology £72 million
Telesoft Technologies Think Engine Networks Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Virtuos Best Sound Production Acquisition Technology Undisclosed
Western Digital SiliconSystems Acquisition Technology £45.5 million
XCounter AB Oy AJAT 59.8% stake Technology £3.1 million
Nimans Rocom Acquisition Telecoms £12.5 million
TUI Adventure Tours Australia Acquisition Travel Agents Undisclosed
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