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Brakes Brakes is to acquire Woodward Foodservice, the food wholesaler with eight distribution centres in the Midlands, the North, Scotland and Wales, from Baugur for an estimated £20m. 08-Jul-2008 Brakes, the food distributor with 8,500 staff, has been acquired by US private equity firm Bain Capital for £877m. 02-Jul-2007 Brakes, the food distribution group valued at about £1.2bn, has been put up for sale by its private equity owner Clayton Dubilier & Rice. 14-Mar-2007 Brakes is in discussions to acquire the Peter's Food Service chilled food distribution business from Compass. 15-Sep-2004 Brakes is to close its ready meals factory at Lenham near Maidstone in May with the loss of up to 60 jobs, in order to transfer production to sites in North Wales and Devon. 19-Feb-2003 More from the Food & Drink sector Related pages: Kallo Foods Tate & Lyle Vitacress Salads Glenmorangie Dale Farm Brakes website: www.brake.co.uk The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008