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Aston Villa Football Club Aston Villa Football Club has agreed to a £63m takeover offer from the US owner of the Cleveland Browns NFL franchise. 15-Aug-2006 Aston Villa, the Birmingham-based football club valued at £51m, has been put up for sale, having appointed NM Rothschild to conduct a strategic review. 23-Jan-2006 Aston Villa has received a preliminary takeover approach from an Irish property consortium that values the Birmingham-based football club at more than £60m. 01-Nov-2005 Aston Villa is seeking permission from Birmingham City Council to build a £8m shopping and housing development in Witton. 06-Dec-2004 Aston Villa has sold a 9.9% stake to cable operator NTL for £17m, as part of a £26m media partnership deal. 26-Jan-2000 Aston Villa is in negotiations that could result in NTL acquiring a 10% stake in the football club. 13-Jan-2000 Aston Villa has won the final go-ahead from Birmingham City Council for a £23m plan to extend the capacity of its Villa Park stadium from 39,000 to more than 50,000, and a hotel will also be built. 08-Jan-2000 Aston Villa is to submit plans to Birmingham City Council to spend £18m modernising its football stadium and building a food superstore and industrial estate, with the creation of up to 1,000 jobs. 13-Apr-1999 Aston Villa is planning to build a 100-bed hotel next to its football stadium in Birmingham in order to boost revenues from non-football sources. 16-Jul-1997 Aston Villa Football Club is planning a stock market flotation in the spring in order to raise up to £20m for stadium improvements and working capital. 07-Feb-1997 More from the Leisure sector Related pages: Pembrokeshire County Council Land Securities Regent Inns Luminar Hilton Hotels Corporation Aston Villa Football Club website: www.avfc.co.uk The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008