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Candover Candover Partners is to acquire DX Services for £349m, and will merge it with Secure Mail Services to create a combined mail delivery business with 1,840 staff. 10-Jul-2006 Pandrol, the manufacturer of rail track fastening systems with 663 staff in 11 countries, has been sold by Candover to Delachaux of France for £165m. 05-Nov-2003 Cinven and Candover are in negotiations to acquire the BertelsmannSpringer scientific publishing division of Bertelsmann of Germany, in a £700m deal. 13-May-2003 Candover has acquired the Wellstream pipe manufacturing business of US oil services group Halliburton, as part of a £79m management buy-in. 13-Mar-2003 Candover Investments is looking to sell Clondalkin, the Irish printing and packaging group with about 4,000 staff, for about £470m. 21-Feb-2003 Candover is to sell Airtechnology Holdings, the supplier of motors, fans and environmental control systems, to Ametek of the US. 15-Jan-2003 Candover, the private equity investor, is in negotiations to acquire the Picard Surgeles frozen food business from Carrefour of France for £475m. 08-Jan-2001 Candover is considering a number of bids for Shepperton Studios, including one from Pinewood that would result in the creation of a £120m movie production business. 14-Aug-2000 Candover is to sell the Brannigans chain of bars and clubs to a new company called Mustard Entertainment Restaurants for £67m. 26-Jun-2000 First Leisure is expected to return about £100m to shareholders once it has completed the £210m sale of its nightclub division to Candover. 02-Nov-1999 Charter is selling its specialist engineering division to the Candover venture capital group for £194m, including rail support systems, environmental control systems, and workspace environments. 01-Nov-1999 P&O has sold the Earl's Court and Olympia exhibition halls in London to the owners of the Business Design Centre and the Candover buy-out fund for £183m. 02-Oct-1999 Charter is in negotiations to sell its specialist engineering division to the Candover venture capital group for about £200m, and has also announced plans to cut 700 jobs in a restructuring programme. 08-Sep-1999 Hillsdown is to be acquired by Hicks Muse Tate & Furst of the US in a £822m deal as Candover has withdrawn from the bidding, and Hicks Muse is expected to sell the poultry division. 04-Jun-1999 Hillsdown has received a £816m takeover offer from the Candover venture capital group, which beats a rival bid from Hicks Muse Tate & Furst of the US. 29-May-1999 Candover Investments is planning an £800m bid for Mirror Group, which it would merge with its Regional Independent Newspapers subsidiary. 18-Jan-1999 United News & Media has sold United Provincial Newspapers, the publisher of the Yorkshire Post, to Candover Investments for £360m, and its Spanish regional publishing operation to Hebdo Mag International for £43m. 28-Feb-1998 Wellman is selling its specialist engineering business to a management buy-in, set up by Candover Partners, for £17.4m. 14-Jun-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007