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Ennstone Thistle is to mothball its Brand & Rae concrete blocks business at Springfield in Fife, with the loss of 11 jobs. 21-Dec-2009 Ennstone has been bought out of administration by a new company called Breedon Holdings, securing the future of about 1,000 jobs at quarrying operations across the country. 11-Mar-2009 Ennstone is to shed 120 jobs from its 1,200-strong UK workforce, following a fall in demand for aggregates. 20-Nov-2008 Ennstone has acquired the ready-mixed concrete operations of TSL Contractors in the west of Scotland for £1m, including three manufacturing plants in Oban and Fort William. 16-Jan-2008 Ennstone Johnston has acquired Waveney Asphalt, the Suffolk-based surfacing contractor, for up to £3.2m. 15-Nov-2007 Ennstone Thistle has acquired The Boyne Bay Lime Company, the owner of the Portsoy limestone quarry in North East Scotland, as well as DW Gordon Blocks, the Aberdeen-based concrete block manufacturer, for a total £4.6m. 07-Nov-2007 Ennstone, the quarrying and materials company, is to invest up to £5m in the expansion of its factory in Telford, if planning permission is secured for the redevelopment of its site in Doseley. 14-Sep-2007 Ennstone is to raise £51m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its building materials business in Scotland and the US. 03-May-2007 Ennstone Thistle has acquired seven ready mixed concrete plants in Aberdeenshire, Inverness, Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline from Cemex UK and Tarmac for £1.8m. 28-Feb-2007 Ennstone Johnston has acquired the trade and assets of Mansfield Asphalt Company for up to £7.1m, including a plant that supplies 135,000 tonnes of asphalt per year to the construction industry in the East Midlands. 19-Feb-2007 Ennstone Johnston has acquired May Gurney Surfacing, the Norfolk-based surfacing contractor, for £0.5m. 24-Nov-2006 Ennstone Johnston has acquired the remaining 49% of Telford-based Berwyn Granite Quarries from Tarmac for £18m. 03-Nov-2006 Ennstone has acquired Jackson Precast, the East Midlands-based precast concrete manufacturer with 34 staff, for £6m. 09-Aug-2006 Ennstone has acquired Smiths Construction, the Newark-based road surfacing contractor with 102 staff, for £3.7m. 22-Feb-2006 Ennstone has acquired Ayton Products' asphalt and aggregate operations near Norwich for £8.5m. 25-Jan-2006 Ennstone has acquired J&H Parry & Sons, the West Midlands-based surfacing contractor, for up to £2.1m. 12-Oct-2005 Ennstone Thistle has acquired the readymix concrete and contracting business of Aberdeen-based JH Connon for £1.1m, which will involve the transfer of 54 staff. 04-May-2005 Ennstone is planning to sell its Johnston Engineering operations to Bucher Industries and a North American management team for a total £26m. 21-Feb-2005 Ennstone is to acquire GRS (South Witham), the operator of a limestone quarry in Lincolnshire, for £1.6m. 29-Apr-2004 Ennstone has acquired T&T, the Doncaster-based limestone quarry operator, for £2m. 27-Jun-2003 Ennstone Thistle has acquired an asphalt and contracting operation at Daviot, Inverness, and a quarrying operation at Furnace in Argyll and Orrock in Fife from Tarmac Northern for £0.75m. 27-May-2002 Ennstone has acquired Tarmac Northern's West Coast quarrying and asphalt operations at Furness, Fort William, Aviemore and Elgin for £2.8m. 02-Nov-2001 Alexander Russell has sold Russell Minerals, its US quarry division, to Ennstone for £2.7m. 07-Feb-2001 Artisan is to acquire EC Ripon, the housebuilder, from Ennstone for £10m. 06-Dec-2000 Ennstone is to acquire Breedon for £50m, in order to create an enlarged quarrying group and sell off Breedon's housebuilding business. 02-May-2000 Ennstone is to sell its Blockleys Brick and New Acres divisions to Michelmersh Brick for £12m, in order to focus on aggregates. 02-Mar-2000 Ennstone is seeking to acquire full ownership of Blockleys, in a deal that values the building blocks company at about £9m. 24-Dec-1999 Ennstone's Natural Building Materials subsidiary is to acquire Burford Quarrying of Oxfordshire for £4m. 30-Sep-1999 Ennstone is raising £11m in a rights issue in order to fund the acquisition of aggregates businesses in England. 14-Jul-1999 Ennstone has acquired Cooper Sand & Gravel, the US quarry business, for £1.6m. 11-Feb-1999 Ennstone is forming a joint venture with J&A Gardner to acquire Gardner's quarry operations in the west of Scotland. 09-Oct-1998 Ennstone is to acquire the stone and concrete division of Drings of Bath for about £1m, and it will become part of its Natural Building Materials subsidiary. 21-Sep-1998 Ennstone has acquired two quarries in Fife from Hewden Stuart for £1m. 19-Aug-1998 Ennstone has sold its McQuiston Stone quarrying operation in Pennsylvania to Essroc Cement for £2.7m. 13-Mar-1998 Ennstone has launched an agreed offer to acquire Bruntcliffe Aggregates, the quarrying company, for £26m. 23-Aug-1997 Ennstone, the building materials company, is in discussions that could lead to its acquisition of Bruntcliffe Aggregates, the quarrying company. 01-Aug-1997 Ennstone is to raise over £8m in a share placing in order to fund the purchase and expansion of Tarmac's masonry products division, as part of a plan to widen its product base and strengthen its balance sheet. 30-May-1997
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