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Calor Calor Gas is to close its eight-acre LPG import centre at the Port of Felixstowe within a year, in order to make way for the £250m expansion of the port. 06-Mar-2008 Calor is to close part of its gas distribution centre in Ellesmere Port this summer with the loss of 25 jobs, in order to transfer cylinder filling and customer service to other sites. 12-Jul-2007 Calor Gas is to close operations at its Millbrook plant in Southampton with the loss of 35 jobs, in response to a shift in consumer demand from cylinder products to bulk storage installations. 05-May-2000 National Power has acquired the Calortex gas supply business from a joint venture of Texaco, Calor and Nuon, for undisclosed terms. 09-Mar-1999 Calor Gas has acquired the bottled gas business of Leicester-based Alternative Gas Supplies. 15-Feb-1999 Calor Gas has acquired Mariner Gas, the Grimsby-based gas supplier. 26-Oct-1998 Powell Duffryn has sold Eurogas, its liquefied heating fuel subsidiary, to Calor Gas for £13.5m. 21-Nov-1997 Nuon, the Dutch utility, has acquired a 33% stake in Calortex, the joint venture between Calor and Texaco, and will fund 50% of Calortex's investment programme. 16-Oct-1997 Calor Group is centralising its UK business by moving its head office from Slough to Leamington Spa and removing two layers of management. 09-Jul-1997 SHV Energy of the Netherlands has offered to buy the 48% of Calor Group it does not already own, in order to eliminate conflicts with other shareholders. 08-Oct-1996 Calor Group has gained £24m from the sale of its 21% stake in Pamgas, the east European gas joint venture, as it wants to focus on investing in India, east Asia and South America. 30-Mar-1996 Calor Group is acquiring a 49% stake in the Brazilian LPG distributor, Supergasbras Distribuidora de Gas. 03-Jan-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008