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Arjo Wiggins Appleton has accepted a £2.2bn takeover bid from Worms of France, but will retain its UK headquarters. 23-May-2000 Arjo Wiggins Appleton, the paper group, has received a £2.2bn takeover approach from Worms & Cie of France. 17-May-2000 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is to demerge its paper merchanting business into a new company called Antalis, allowing it to develop separately from its manufacturing business. 02-Mar-2000 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is considering plans to sell or demerge its paper merchanting division, which is valued by analysts at more than £500m. 30-Sep-1999 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is planning to further restructure its paper business in the second half of this year, which will lead to more closures. 29-Jul-1999 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is to close a paper mill in Dover with the loss of 150 jobs, and a further 60 jobs will be cut in Aberdeen as part of a £15m cost-cutting campaign in its premium fine paper business. 05-Jun-1999 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is in discussions with Cascades of Canada about the sale of a paper production facility in Sainte-Marie, France. 13-May-1999 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is to close a paper coating plant in Cardiff with the loss of 400 jobs. 10-Apr-1999 Arjo Wiggins Appleton, the Anglo-French paper company, is to reorganise itself along product rather than regional lines, which could lead to the eventual break-up of the group. 13-Jan-1999 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is to cut a further 50 jobs at its Stoneywood Paper Mill in Aberdeen. 13-Nov-1998 Arjo Wiggins Appleton's carbonless paper mill at Fort William is said to be up for sale and a number of potential purchasers have already looked over the plant. 30-Sep-1998 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is to review its carbonless and thermal paper activities, which could involve co-operating with another company in the sector or expanding the non-US side of the business. 30-Jul-1998 Arjo Wiggins Appleton has acquired a 60% stake in RTC, the Romanian paper merchant, which will extend its European merchanting network. 20-Jul-1998 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is conducting a major review of its businesses which could result in some significant sales, possibly including its carbonless paper operation. 08-Mar-1996 Arjo Wiggins Appleton is restructuring by closing a paper plant in Grenoble and cutting 260 jobs in the UK, 235 in France, 180 in Belgium and 15 in Germany. 16-Jan-1996 Arjo Wiggins Appleton has sold Copyrama, the carbonless reels concern, to Zanders Feinpapiere of Germany. 18-Oct-1995 Arjo Wiggins Appleton has bought Graphtec, the S African distributor of writing and printing papers. 05-Oct-1995
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