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In today’s deal headlines London-based Libra Holidays has bought sister companies Argo Holidays and Jetlife and H&T Group plc has bought two pawnbrokers in the northeast


In today’s deal headlines London-based Libra Holidays has bought sister companies Argo Holidays and Jetlife and H&T Group plc has bought two pawnbrokers in the northeast

In today’s deal headlines London-based Libra Holidays has bought sister companies Argo Holidays and Jetlife and H&T Group plc has bought two pawnbrokers in the northeast

Done deals:

•    H&T Group plc has bought two pawnbrokers in northeast England for an undisclosed sum

•    Falkirk-based roadsweepers Applied Sweepers has been sold to US-based rival Tennant for £34 million

•    PLUS-listed Global Entertainment Group plc, has raised £1.3 million through a share placing

•    Lombard Risk Management plc has sold its valuation business, Independent Value and Risk Services to NYSE Euronext subsidiary LIFFE Holdings plc for approximately £700,000

•    Dexion Absolute has raised around $263.2 million (£134.2 million) through a share placing

•    Edda Media, the Norwegian division of Mecom Group plc, has sold its Direct Marketing activities in Norway to Posten Norge and its Swedish operations to InterMail for a combined total of NOK51 million (£4.8 million) 

•    Bank of Scotland Corporate has acquired a 20 per cent stake in Wales-based supplier of vehicle tracking systems Quartix while providing a debt and equity investment totalling more than £12 million

•    London-based Libra Holidays has snapped up sister companies Argo Holidays and Jetlife 

Deals in the pipeline:

•    Clinical Computing plc, a developer of clinical information systems for the healthcare market, has agreed to acquire project management and resource software business Program Management Group plc through its subsidiary Datanet Research

•    Bear Stearns Private Equity is to acquire Macquarie Private Capital Group

Marc Barber

Marc Barber

Marc was editor of GrowthBusiness from 2006 to 2010. He specialised in writing about entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital, mid-market M&A, small caps and high-growth businesses.

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