Findel is to sell NRS, the Leicestershire-based supplier of equipment to the healthcare sector with 500 staff, to private equity firm LDC for £24m. [20-Mar-2013]
Findel has sold its Choices Group UK home entertainment products business and its Webb Ivory Burton consumer mail order division to Endless for a nominal sum. [09-Jun-2010]
Findel, the home shopping firm, is to open a 213,000 sq ft distribution centre at the new Burnley Bridge Business Park at Pollard Moor in autumn 2010, with the creation of 120 jobs. [26-Nov-2009]
Findel is looking to sell Kitbag, the Middleton-based online sports goods retailer. [28-May-2009]
Findel is to close its Manchester-based Cotswold furniture and homewares business and its Truro-based Letterbox toys mail order business, with the loss of 60 jobs. [06-Apr-2009]
Findel is to shed 15 jobs at its mail order business at Tregony in Cornwall, in order to transfer the call centre and personalised gifts section to Manchester. [18-Jan-2008]
Findel is to buy the Peterborough-based music wholesaling division of ChoicesUK out of administration for undisclosed terms, securing 330 jobs, and the business will be sold on to Webb Group. [06-Sep-2007]
Findel is to sell its Home Farm Hampers business, which has 7,500 agents and a £8m order book, to Park Group for £0.3m. [09-Mar-2007]
Findel has acquired The Cotswold Company, the home furnishings and accessories supplier, for £0.1m. [27-Feb-2007]
Findel has bought a number of European Home Retail businesses out of administration for £34m, including Kitbag sports, I Want One Of Those gifts, the remaining 40% of Home Farm Hampers and Kleeneze UK home shopping. [17-Oct-2006]
Findel has acquired Letterbox Mail Order, the Cornwall-based mail order and online retailer of children's gifts and toys, for £7m. [13-Jun-2006]
Findel is to acquire GLS Educational Supplies for £27m, in order to expand its educational supplies business in the London area. [06-Dec-2004]
Findel is to shed 25 jobs at its educational supplies sites in Ashby, Nottingham and Weston-super-Mare. [17-Apr-2003]
Findel is planning to shed a further 100 jobs in its mail order and educational supplies business, as part of the integration of the recently-acquired Novara operation. [07-Dec-2001]