Businesses bought

Ultraframe Buys Quantal, Synseal Pretty Much Buys K2

It's been a rather dramatic day in world of conservatory roofs! Ultraframe have bought aluminium conservatory roof company Quantal. And it was revealed the earlier on in the day that Synseal have bought the assets of K2. Talk about rapid consolidation of the conservatory roof market! MD of Ultraframe had this to say about the [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:33+01:00May 1st, 2012|Categories: Businesses bought|

Avocet Bought By Atlantic Group

Over the weekend I was informed of some good news, that Avocet have been bought and avoid going out of business altogether. The company which has bought the business appears to be Atlantic Group, which owns the hardware company Eliza Tinsley. There were earlier whispers that large systems companies, like Synseal would be interested in [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:36+01:00February 27th, 2012|Categories: Businesses bought, businesses for sale|

>Review Of The Year: 2011

>I know there are about 3 and a bit weeks left of the year, but I thought I might as well claim my spot and be the first to do a review of the year...from my point of view anyway!UncertaintyBefore the bad years, the industry could count on the typical buying pattern. Beginning of the [...]

>No Smoke Without Fire

>There is still the odd rumour flying around about takeovers and mergers. Nothing I can confirm just yet. One rumour keeps getting denied, despite the fact that it keeps showing it's head. I published another rumour on Twitter last week which was then denied by the company's owners...which to be honest I would prefer as [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:40+01:00July 19th, 2011|Categories: Businesses bought, businesses for sale, buyouts, rumors|

>Lister’s View On Veka’s Purchase Of Bowater

>Here is Lister's response to Veka's purchase of the Bowater group:We have been expecting Bowater to be bought for some months now as market share and demand for construction products including windows has been shrinking in the UK and a smaller more consolidated industry with far fewer systems companies is inevitable.Bowater is viewed as a [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:42+01:00June 14th, 2011|Categories: Businesses bought, Double glazing companies|

>Official: Veka Have Bought Bowater Systems

>After days of huge speculation and rumor, it has been announced today that Veka have bought Bowater Systems.The announcement comes after days of speculation, both here and on the Twittersphere, about whether the deal was done. Well, via a couple of sources, plus three Twitter accounts now saying the same information, it's clear to see that this [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:42+01:00June 7th, 2011|Categories: Businesses bought, buyouts, Double glazing companies, double glazing industry|

>More Pressure On HMV

>In an announcement expected to be made tomorrow, the trouble high-street music chain HMV is set to become owned by the general public. More specifically, banks such has the Lloyds Banking Group which are majority owned by the general public will now take a stake in HMV in a bid to help with restructuring it's [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:42+01:00June 6th, 2011|Categories: Businesses bought, economy, high street|

>Buyouts On A Personal Level

>Tomorrow we should be reading a statement which will confirm the buyout of one systems company by another. While this has been big news for those who have bothered to follow the tweets and blog comments, we have to remember and be sensitive to the fact that combining two massive companies in the fabrication sector [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:42+01:00June 5th, 2011|Categories: Businesses bought, businesses for sale|

>Synseal Gets Bought Out…Aagin

>Today's big announcement was Synseal completing a MBO, and merging with global private equity firm H.I.G. Capital Ltd. Part of the statement released read:The management team of Synseal announced today that it had purchased the share capital of Synseal Extrusions Ltd and Allerford Holdings Ltd from Gary Dutton MBE for an undisclosed sum.The successful culmination [...]

By |2010-02-24T11:45:00+00:00February 24th, 2010|Categories: Businesses bought, businesses for sale, Double glazing companies|

>Robert Peston

>Anyone read the BBC's Robert Peston's Blog? It's pretty good, but his knowledge of business of all types and his ability to foresee which road the economy is going to be headed is what impresses me most. It got me to wondering, do we have a Robert Peston like character within the double glazing industry. Do we have someone [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:52+01:00September 9th, 2009|Categories: Blogs, Businesses bought, double glazing industry|

>Synseal Bought

>Well that didn't take long to clear up...Synseal has been bought by the former directors of PFL. The reasons for selling Synseal still aren't clear, but at least some form of financial security seems to be organised.

By |2009-04-01T16:34:00+01:00April 1st, 2009|Categories: Businesses bought|
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