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News and articles on business acquisitions including guides on strategic planning, and effective integration to best realise synergies, mitigate risks, and create value for shareholders.

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Lavendon buys Wizard Workspace

Lavendon Group, which rents powered access equipment, has completed its second acquisition in less than six weeks.

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Entrepreneur snaps up MS Industrial Services

A northeast-based entrepreneur has bought an industrial cleaning and waste disposal company as part of a plan to build an environmental services group.

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Carpetright buys northeastern rival

A national carpet and floorings retailer has expanded its operations in the northeast after buying a chain of carpet shops. Carpetright bought Storey Carpets from the family of Paul Heptinstall, who established the business almost 90 years ago.

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Dechra buys Leeds business

Dechra Pharmaceuticals, a veterinary products and services business, has expanded its operations by acquiring Leeds Veterinary Laboratories (LVL) for £750,000.

Growth Planning

Keeping an acquisition deal simple

An acquisition will be a particularly frantic time for both the buyer and seller. Andrew Millington, corporate finance partner at professional services firm Mazars, outlines the common pitfalls when structuring a deal and how to avoid them.

News

Connaught buys social housing business

One of the largest social housing maintenance businesses in the North of England has been created after Connaught bought Leeds-based Baldwins.

Growth Planning

The Golden Rules of company acquisitions

Many company acquisitions fail to deliver their anticipated benefits owing to poor post-deal implementation, lack of planning or shoddy due diligence. Follow the golden rules and your chances of a positive outcome should be greatly increased.

Growth Planning

When acquisitions don’t deliver – Going for broke

Acquisitions that fail to meet expectations and deliver value can easily topple previously stable businesses. So what typically turns a potential success story into another sorry statistic? GrowthBusiness finds out.

Entrepreneurs

Jeremy Middleton: Media Square mogul

Jeremy Middleton is passionate about using acquisitions as a rapid growth strategy and there's no denying he knows how to put failing businesses back on their feet.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Company Acquisitions made easy

Attractive company acquisition opportunities often appeal to ambitious growth businesses, but such deals need to be financed correctly. GrowthBusiness looks at various ways to get your sums right.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Does acquisition breed competition?

Over the past 12 months, AIM-listed software supplier Torex Retail has embarked on an extensive and hugely eventful period of acquisition. Curiously, however, the company’s competitors also claim to be reaping the rewards.

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Gresham invests in duo

Mid-market private equity house Gresham has completed a brace of deals in under a week, supporting both the management buyout of industrials business Olaer and providing £31 million of financing for local government services group Jackson Lloyd.

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